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Christopher Plummer Introduction

Christopher Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor and writer of his memoir In "Spite of Myself" (2008)

In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theatre, Plummer is perhaps best known for the role of Captain in . His most recent film roles include the Disney– 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as as , and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus.

Plummer was born in , , the great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir . Following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, , near . He studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love of the theatre at an early age and began acting in high school. He travelled by train to study with Canadian Repertory in . Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1957 when provided him his movie debut in Stage Struck. Since then he has appeared in a vast number of notable films which include the Academy Award winning The Sound Of Music, The Man Who Would Be King, , Waterloo, The Silent Partner, Dragnet,Inside Daisy Clover, VI: The Undiscovered Country, Malcolm X, Dolores Claiborne, Wolf, Twelve Monkeys, , Somewhere in Time and .Recent successes include 's Oscar-nominated The Insider playing television journalist , for which he won the , , , and the National Critics Awards, and 's Academy Award winning A Beautiful Mind as well. He played Arthur Case in 's 2006 film .

His most recent film roles include the Disney-Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as 1, The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and as Hal.

Plummer has won numerous awards for his work, including an Oscar, two Emmys, two Tonys, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.

Biography

Date of Birth: 13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Birth Name: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer

Arguably the greatest survivor of the two-fisted drinkers' school of acting that included the likes of , Peter O'Toole and , classically-trained actor Christopher Plummer established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the finest stage performers of his generation, particularly in Shakespearean roles. After headlining for three of the world's most noted theater companies - Great Britain's National Theater, The Royal Shakespeare Company and The in his native Canada - Plummer starred in a host of movies; most memorably playing Baron Georg Von Trapp in the smash hit, "The Sound of Music" (1965). Though he remained prolific both on stage and onscreen, earning awards in several mediums, Plummer languished for the next few decades in mostly mediocre projects that were beneath his skill set. But in 1997, he delivered a Tony Award- winning performance as the besotted actor in "Barrymore" that earned him the considerable attention that had previously eluded him. From that point on, he became a much in-demand character actor, playing "" correspondent Mike Wallace in "The Insider" (1999), Captain Christopher Newport in "The New World" (2005), and a managing partner of a power law firm in the excellent political , "Syriana" (2005). While he occasionally returned to the stage, as he did with a sterling Broadway performance as the titular "" (2004), Plummer enjoyed his late-life success on the big screen after his long struggle to achieve it.

Born on Dec. 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Plummer was raised by his father, John, who worked at McGill University, and his mother, Isabella, the granddaughter of Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott. Plummer's parents divorced the same year he was born. Having gone to live with his mother in Montreal, the young lad discovered the theater at a young age, taking in various stage productions, ballet and opera throughout his youth.

When he was attending Jennings Private School, he worked as a lighting designer on a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which prompted him to trying acting. His first notable role came when he played D'Arcy in "Pride and Punishment." Following high school,

he trained with the Canadian in Ottawa, where he was in countless productions in a mere two years, including "The Infernal Machine," which also featured a young , and "." In fact, both Plummer and Shatner worked together in for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Though he made his small screen debut in a televised production of "" (CBC, 1951), Plummer spent most of the decade honing his chops on the stage.

Plummer left the comfortable confines of Canada to join a repertory company in , where he performed in productions of "The Little Foxes," "The Petrified Forest" and "Nina," which led to touring with American theater companies. He soon found himself making his Broadway debut as George Phillips in "The Star Cross Story" (1954), starring Katherine Cornell, but the show only lasted one night. Also that year, he again starred with Cornell in 's "The Dark Is Light Enough," followed by a turn in the short-lived "Home Is the Hero." Plummer found great critical success portraying the Earl of Warwick in 's "" (1955), opposite . Following a Paris production of "" (1955) opposite , he returned to Canada and joined the Shakespeare Festival company in Stratford, Ontario, where he thrived in the title roles of "" (1956), which also starred Shatner as the Duke of Gloucester, and "" (1957). Plummer demonstrated equal facility with comic parts like in "" (1957) and Benedick in "" (1958).

On American television, Plummer appeared in "Kraft Theatre" productions of "The Light That Failed" and "The Web," while playing Miles Hendon in the adaptation of 's novel, "The Prince and the Pauper" (CBS, 1957). Following productions of "Johnny Belinda" (NBC, 1958) and "Little Moon of Alban" (NBC, 1958), he made his feature debut in "Stage Struck" (1958), Sidney Lumet's remake of Zoe Akins' 1933 stage play, "Morning Glory." In an attempt to settle down, Plummer married actress in 1956 and a year later had his only child, , who grew up to become a notable actress in her own right with performances in "" (1985) and "" (1994). After divorcing Grimes following four years of marriage, he portrayed in a Shakespeare Festival production of " and " (1960). Making his debut, he portrayed King Henry II in "" (1961), which earned him the London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor. After playing Christian in a production of " de Bergerac," Plummer reprised "Hamlet" for a televised production marking the 400th birthday of Shakespeare in 1964. Widely hailed by critics, his sterling performance marked a significant breakthrough for the young actor.

Following a strong portrayal of the reckless emperor in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), Plummer had his greatest success on the big screen with his performance as the aloof widow Captain Georg Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" (1965). Starring as a young nun sent by her convent to be a governess for the numerous Von Trapp children, only to fall in love with the captain, "The Sound of Music" was a monster hit, an Oscar winner and the last of the old-fashioned movies before the more experimental films of the late- and early-. Though his performance was exquisite as usual, Plummer's singing left something to be desired - at least compared to Andrews - which led director to overdub his voice. He next starred in "Inside Daisy Clover" (1966), a critically panned drama about a tomboy-turned-starlet () who reaches stardom in Hollywood, only to suffer a mental breakdown. Plummer made a as Field Marshal in "The Night of the Generals" (1967), which he followed with a starring turn as the titular " the King" (1968).

In the -era spy thriller, "The High Commissioner" (1968), Plummer starred as a corrupt Australian diplomat wanted for a 25-year-old murder who falls under the uneasy protection of a detective () after he becomes targeted for assassination. He next joined an all-star cast as a Canadian fighter in the World War II epic, "Battle of Britain" (1969), starring , , and . Plummer had something of a setback with his next film, "Lock Up Your Daughters!" (1969), in which he played the fastidious judge Lord Foppington, who hears the case of three sailors and their lascivious adventures that landed them in jail while on shore leave. Plummer entered the

1970s a heavy drinker - all in good fun, of course - and went from one mediocre role to another with the occasional triumph thrown in. After portraying the determined Duke of Wellington opposite 's Napoleon Bonaparte in "Waterloo" (1970), he wallowed in the supernatural thriller, "The Pyx" (1973), also known as "The Hooker Cult Murders." Back on Broadway, Plummer delivered a sterling performance in the title role of "Cyrano," which earned him a for Outstanding Performance as well as a Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Musical.

Plummer parlayed his continued onstage success to the big screen with a strong portrayal of British author in 's "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975). In "The Return of " (1975), he filled in for as Sir Charles Lytton, also known as the Phantom, who once again steals the fabled Pink Panther diamond. Returning to television, Plummer earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for "Arthur Hailey's ''" (NBC, 1976), an epic drama about two powerful bankers (Plummer and ) who engage in fraud and corruption while the surrounding inner city crumbles and decays around them. He next co-starred in the controversial, but highly-rated television "Jesus of Nazareth" (NBC, 1977), in which he played , son of Herod the Great () who was partly responsible for the deaths of both () and Jesus (). Though he offered a superb performance in "International Velvet" (1978), critics largely shunned the mawkish sequel to the classic, "National Velvet" (1944).

After playing a psychopathic bank robber in "The Silent Partner" (1978) and co-starring opposite in the woeful World War II romance "Hanover Street" (1979), Plummer rounded out the decade playing to 's Dr. Watson in "Murder by Decree" (1979), an uneven thriller that had the famed duo investigating the notorious , . He next co-starred opposite and in the romantic fantasy-later turned-cult favorite, "Somewhere in Time" (1980), which he followed with an appearance in "" (ABC, 1980), starring and directed by . Following forgotten television movies like "" (NBC, 1981) and "When the Circus Came to Town" (CBS, 1981), as well as the mystery thriller "Eyewitness" (1981), Plummer delivered a stunning performance as opposite in "Othello" (1982), which famed Broadway critic deemed "quite possibly the best Shakespearean performance to have originated on this continent in our time." He next portrayed Archbishop di Contini-Verchese, friend and mentor to the young, conflicted Father Ralph de Bricassart () in the acclaimed four-part miniseries, "The Thorn Birds" (ABC, 1983).

Though he never lacked for work, Plummer was challenged to find higher-quality projects as he got older. He appeared in many forgettable films, often elevating the material more than it deserved to be, including the sci-fi thriller "Dreamscape" (1984), the botched adaptation of 's "Ordeal By Innocence" (1985), the easily dismissed biopic of sculling champ Ned Hanlan (), "The Boy in Blue" (1986), and the abhorrent "I Love N.Y." (1987), allegedly directed by celebrity photographer Gianni Bozzacchi, who credited himself as the anonymous Alan Smithee. Though he occasionally appeared in enjoyably hammy roles, as he did in "Dragnet" (1987), Plummer struggled throughout the rest of the decade to find suitable material for his unparalleled talents. Once again, he found solace on the stage, touring the in the title role of "" (1988), though he returned from the role to star in the abysmal espionage thriller "Mindfield" (1989). It soon became clear that his luck would fail to change in the early part of the 1990s, which started with the actor playing a homeless magician named Shitty in 's misfire domestic comedy, "Where the Heart Is" (1990).

In his first regular series role, Plummer portrayed Alexander Addington, an international businessman who vows to combat terrorism after his wife is kidnapped, in "Counterstrike" (CTV/USA Network, 1990-93). While on the show, he reunited with old friend William Shatner for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991), playing Chang, a one-eyed trying to forge peace with the Federation. Following a small role as a chaplain in Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" (1992), he starred opposite , Jr. in a Broadway revival of Harold

Pinter's "No Man's Land" (1994). Plummer soon found himself landing a better slate of films, including the gloomy drama "Dolores Claiborne" (1995) and 's excellent "" (1995). He also had a string of made-for-cable films like "Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron'" (Showtime, 1995), "We the Jury" (USA Network, 1996) and "Skeletons" (HBO, 1997). But despite a strong presence onscreen, Plummer's reputation was still reliant on his outstanding stage work, which culminated in a sterling performance in "Barrymore" (1997) as the legendary actor and sot John Barrymore. Though reluctant at first to tackle the part, Plummer gave it his all and earned his second career Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Play.

Because of his acclaimed Tony Award-winning performance, Plummer found the doors to more serious dramatic roles swung wide open. After playing Franklin D. Roosevelt in "Winchell" (HBO, 1998), he delivered a dead-on performance as "60 Minutes" journalist Mike Wallace in the controversial tobacco feature "The Insider" (1999), which starred as a scientist for Brown and Williamson who blows the whistle on tobacco companies knowing the danger of their product. Though overshadowed by the award-caliber performances of Crowe and , who portrayed "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman, Plummer was nonetheless memorable as Wallace, particularly in a scene were he dressed down a corporate flunky played by Gina Gershon. After playing British prosecutor, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, in the two-part miniseries "" (TNT, 2000), he had a pivotal role as a psychiatrist treating schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) in the Oscar-winning picture, "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). In 2002, Plummer was cast as David in the historical drama "Ararat," which he followed as Uncle Ralph to the title character in "" (2002), while co-starring opposite and in the supernatural thriller, "" (2003).

In 2004, Plummer remained an in-demand supporting player, appearing as in 's disappointing historical epic "Alexander" and as Nicolas Cage's grandfather - one of a long line of American treasure hunters - in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced blockbuster, "National Treasure." Another Tony nomination, but no win, came his way after an awe- inspiriting performance as "King Lear" (2004) at the famed Theater in . The following year was a busy one for the actor, which included an Emmy-nominated performance as the arrogant Cardinal Bernard Law in "Our Fathers" (HBO, 2005), which focused on the sexual cases that plagued the archdiocese of Boston in 2002. After a turn as 's father in the misfire "Must Love Dogs" (2005), Plummer was an influential, seemingly untouchable managing partner of a law firm overseeing the dubious merger of two oil companies in the complex political potboiler "Syriana" (2005). He next appeared in Terrance Malick's "The New World" (2005), a lyrical, but ultimately meandering take on the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and the ensuing love affair between Captain John Smith () and a young Native American girl, Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher).

Plummer next appeared in "The Lake House" (2006), an odd romantic drama about a doctor () and an architecture school dropout (Keanu Reeves) who live in the same house but two years apart and fall in love via letters exchanged through a mysterious mailbox that bridges time. He teamed up again with Spike Lee for the director's impressive genre piece, "Inside Man" (2006), playing the founder of a bank who calls in a well-connected fixer () for the rich and powerful to keep quiet a secret buried inside a safe deposit box, while his employees are held hostage by a master thief () battling a negotiator () in an effort to pull off the perfect heist. After a supporting role in the low-budget teen comedy, "Man in the Chair" (2007), Plummer earned his seventh Tony Award nomination for his Broadway performance as Henry Drummond in "Inherit the Wind" (2007). Turning to animated features, he voiced the villain Charles Muntz, who does battle with a 78-year-old balloon salesman () in the jungles of South , in Pixar's "Up" (2009). In "The Last Station" (2009), he delivered a stirring portrayal of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy during his last tumultuous years, in which the author struggled to reconcile his vow of poverty with his enormous wealth. Plummer earned Golden Globe, Independent Spirit, and Screen Guild for Best Supporting Actor. On 26 February 2012 Christopher Plummer won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Beginners". He may be the oldest Oscar winner ever but he's not showing any signs of slowing down. The 82-year-old came on

stage to accept his best supporting actor award and stared at the statue before remarking on how great it looked. "You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life?" Plummer asked. Backstage, Plummer told reporters of the recognition he's received recently, "it's sort of a renewal, it has recharged me. I hope I can do it for another 10 years at least".

Born: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, CA Family: Daughter: Amanda Plummer. Born March 23, 1957; mother, Tammy Grimes

Father: John Plummer. Worked at McGill University; divorced Plummer s mother in 1929

Mother: Isabella Mary Plummer. Granddaughter of Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott; divorced Plummer s father in 1929

Significant Others Wife: Elaine Taylor. Married since 1970

Wife: Patricia Audrey Lewis. Married from 1962-1967

Wife: Tammy Grimes. Married from 1956-1960

Education: Jennings Private School

Milestones

1948 Stage debut in Cymbeline at Canadian Repertory Theatre, Ottawa 1951 TV debut in CBC production of Othello 1954 Broadway debut in The Starcross Story starring Katherine Cornell 1955 Delivered a compelling performance as the Earl of Warwick in Anouilh s The Lark opposite Julie Harris 1955 Starred opposite Judith Anderson in a Paris production of Medea 1956 Portrayed title role in Henry V at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada 1958 Made film debut in Sidney Lumet s Stage Struck 1961 London stage debut in Becket 1965 Most memorable film appearance as Baron Von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews Maria in The Sound of Music 1968 Portrayed title role in feature Oedipus the King 1973 Conceived and directed Lovers and Madmen, an evening of Shakespearean love themes for and himself 1974 Won a Tony Award for his performance in Cyrano 1976 Delivered Emmy-winning performance in Arthur Hailey s The Moneychangers (NBC) 1979 Played Sherlock Holmes in the feature film Murder by Decree 1980 Appeared in award-winning telefilm The Shadow Box (ABC), directed by Paul Newman and co-starring Joanne Woodward 1986 Provided voice of Henri for the animated feature 1988 Toured the U.S. in title role of Macbeth 1990 Starred in TV series Counterstrike on USA Network 1994 Acted opposite Jason Robards Jr. in revival of s No Man s Land on Broadway 1997 Returned to Broadway in the one-man show Barrymore, about the actor John Barrymore 1999 Portrayed TV journalist Mike Wallace in The Insider, a film about tobacco industry whistleblower (Russell Crowe) 2001 Had pivotal role as a psychiatrist treating schizophrenic mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) in A Beautiful Mind 2002 Co-starred in the historical drama feature Ararat 2004 Cast as Aristotle in Oliver Stone s Alexander 2004 Returned to the stage for a production of King Lear at Lincoln Center s Beaumont theater; received a Tony nomination for his performance 2005 Earned Emmy and SAG nominations for his portrayal of Boston s controversial Cardinal Bernard Law in Showtime s Our Fathers 2005 Starred in the geopolitical thriller Syriana, based on the real-life memoirs of CIA agent Robert Baer; produced by 2006 Co-starred with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen in the Spike Lee directed hostage drama Inside Man

2007 Returned to Broadway as Henry Drummond in a revival of Inherit the Wind ; earned seventh Tony nomination 2009 Cast in the title role of Terry Gilliam s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2009 Lent his voice to the feature-length adaptation of Shane Acker s short film 9 2009 Nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role ( The Last Station ) 2009 Nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture ( The Last Station ) 2009 Nominated for the 2009 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male ( The Last Station ) 2009 Nominated for the 2009 Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role ( The Last Station ) 2009 Portrayed Leo Tolstoy in the German biographical film The Last Station ; earned Independent Spirit, Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor

2009 Voiced the villain in the Pixar animated film Up

Worked extensively in live TV during the on shows like and Producers Showcase (both NBC) and Appointment with Adventure (CBS)

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, actor (b at Toronto 13 Dec 1929). Christopher Plummer, a great-grandson of Prime Minister Sir John ABBOTT, is an international star who has worked widely in the US, Britain and Canada. Raised and educated in Montréal, Plummer apprenticed with the Montréal Repertory Theatre and made his professional debut in 1948 with Ottawa's Stage Society, performing over 100 roles with its successor, the Canadian Repertory Theatre. Performances in Bermuda led to a US tour of Nina (1953) and Broadway recognition in The Starcross Story (1954), The Lark (1955) and as Marc Antony in the American Shakespeare Festival's 1955 inaugural season.

Other notable engagements included The Dark Is Light Enough (1955); the devil in J.B. (1958); Arturo Ui (1963); Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1965); (1971); the title roles in the musical Cyrano (1973) and the drama Barrymore (1996- 98), both of which garnered him ; Iago in Othello (1981-82) and Macbeth with (1988); Pinter's No Man's Land (1995) with Jason Robards, Jr; and King Lear (2004). In 2007 he appeared in Inherit the Wind and was nominated a seventh time for a Tony Award.

In 1961 Plummer appeared at Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, as Richard III while alternating in London as Henry II in Becket (winning the Evening Standard Award). He continued his British career at the National Theatre in revivals of Amphitryon 38 and Danton's Death in 1971 and at Chichester in 1985. His first King Lear was directed by Sir in 2001.

Between 1956 and 1967 he starred at Canada's STRATFORD FESTIVAL playing Henry V, Hamlet, Andrew Aguecheek, Mercutio, Leontes, Macbeth, and Marc Antony, as well as other roles. He returned 26 years later on 13 July 1993 to help the festival celebrate its exact 40th anniversary day with a gala one-man show entitled A Word or Two, Before You Go. Barrymore made its 1996 Canadian debut at Stratford and Plummer's King

Lear was seen in 2002. He played Caesar in the Stratford Festival's Caesar and Cleopatra, which was also filmed for television in 2009.

Among his more than 100 feature films are Stage Struck (1958), The Sound of Music (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1966), Oedipus the King (1967), Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969), Waterloo (1970), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Silent Partner (1978), Murder by Decree (GENIE Award, 1979), Dreamscape (1984), The Boy in Blue (1986), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Wolf (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), 12 Monkeys (1996), The Clown at Midnight, Hidden Agenda and Blackheart (all 1998), and the part of TV personality Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles and National Film Critics’ awards. He appeared in Ron Howard's award-winning A Beautiful Mind (2001), 's ARARAT (2002), and Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004), in which he played Aristotle. Other film appearances include Must Love Dogs with Diane Lane, Syriana with George Clooney, and New World, all in 2005; Inside Man and The Lake House in 2006; and Man in the Chair, , and Already Dead in 2007. Christopher Plummer played Doctor Parnassus in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) and was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009).

His work on television is equally extensive. Highlights include Little Moon of Alban (1958) and Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC 1965), both nominated for ; The Money Changers (Emmy Award 1977); Sir John A. Macdonald in Riel (CBC 1979); Spearfield's Daughter (1986); The (Primedia 1991); the made-in-Canada series Counterstrike (1991-93); and Nuremberg (2000), filmed in Montréal. In 2005 he was seen in Four Minutes, the story of Roger Bannister's breaking of the mile-run record, and as Cardinal Law in Our Fathers, an indictment of the 's sexual scandals.

Plummer is also a skilled narrator whose voice has been heard on everything from cartoons to the soundtrack for the 1994 Barnes Exhibit in Toronto. He has recorded several books for young people, including Alice in Wonderland and 's Jacob Two-Two. An accomplished pianist, he has branched out musically to narrate concert versions of Henry V (with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1992-93), (1995) and Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible (1996). Other platform presentations have included a solo evening with Stephen Leacock as well as Love and Master Will, Shakespeare's verse in tandem with actress Zoë CALDWELL. His was the voice of the villainous Charles Muntz in Up (2009), which won an Academy Award for best animated film.

Christopher Plummer, who became a Companion of the in 1968, has received many honours and awards for his work. In 1986 he was inducted into the American Theatre's Hall of Fame and in 1997 into Canada's Walk of Fame. The National Arts Club of America awarded Plummer its gold medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1999). In 2001 he was made an honorary doctor of fine arts at New York's and received the Canadian Governor-General's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002 he was the first performer to be presented with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in the Theatre. has hailed Christopher Plummer as "the finest classical actor in America."

His daughter, Amanda Plummer (b 23 March 1957), has also had a successful acting career with roles in the films (1991) and Pulp Fiction (1994), and in The Lark (2005) at Canada's Stratford Festival.

From: Garner, David. "Plummer, Arthur Christopher Orme." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica-Dominion Institute, 2011.

Mini Biography

Until the 2009 were announced, it could be said about Christopher Plummer that he was arguably the finest actor of the post-World War II period to fail to get an Oscar nod. In that, he was following in the footsteps of the late great John Barrymore, whom Plummer so memorably portrayed on Broadway in a one-man show that brought him a Tony Award.

Aside from the youngest member of the Barrymore siblings (which counted and '' in their number), Christopher Plummer is the premier Shakespearean actor to come out of North America in the 20th century. He was particularly memorable as Hamlet, Iago and Lear, though his Macbeth opposite Glenda Jackson was -- and this was no surprise to him due to the famous curse attached to the "Scottish Play" -- a failure.

Plummer also has given many fine portrayals on film, particularly as he got older and settled down into a comfortable marriage with his third wife. Like another great stage actor, Richard Burton, the younger Plummer failed to connect with the screen. Dynamic on stage, the charisma failed to transfer through the lens onto celluloid. Burton's early film career, when he was a contract player at 20th Century-Fox, failed to ignite, despite his garnering two Oscar nominations early on. He did not become a star until the mid-1960s, after hooking up with Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra (1963). It was Liz who he credited with teaching him how to act on film, Burton said.

Christopher Plummer never made it as a in films. He did not become a star, lacking that je ne said quoi that someone like a or a Paul Newman had naturally. Perhaps if he had been born earlier (he made his debut in Toronto in 1929) into the studio system of Hollywood's golden age, he could have been carefully groomed for stardom. As it was, he shared the English stage actors' disdain -- and he was equally at home in London as he was on the boards of Broadway or on-stage in his native Canada -- for the movies, which did not help him in that medium, as he has confessed. As he aged, Plummer excelled at character parts. He was always a good villain, this man who garnered kudos playing Lucifer on Broadway in Archibald Macleish's -winning "J.B."

Though he likely always be remembered as "Baron Von Trapp" in the atomic bomb-strength blockbuster The Sound of Music (1965) (a film he publicly despised until softening his stance in his 2008 autobiography "In Spite of Me"), his later film work includes such outstanding

performances as the best cinema Sherlock Holmes--other than -- in Sherlock Holmes and Saucy Jack (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), his iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A Beautiful Mind (2001), and as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). It was this last role that finally brought him recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, when he was nominated as Best Actor in a supporting role.

Plummer remains one of the most respected and honored actors performing in the English language. He's won two Emmy Awards out of six nominations stretching 46 years from 1959 and 2005, and one Genie Award in five nominations from 1980 to 2004. For his stage work, Plummer has racked up two Tony Awards on six nominations, the first in 1974 as Best Actor (Musical) for the title role in "Cyrano" and the second in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), in "Barrymore".

Surprisingly, he did not win (though he was nominated) for his masterful 2004 performance of "King Lear", which he originated at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and brought down to Broadway for a sold-out run. His other Tony nominations show the wide range of his talent, from a 1959 nod for the -directed production of Macleish's "J.B." to recognition in 1994 for Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", with a 1982 Best Actor (Play) nomination for his "Iago" in 's "Othello".

He continues to be a very in-demand character actor in prestigious motion pictures. If he were English rather than Canadian (he is the great-grandson of Sir John Abbott, the third Prime Minister of Canada) he'd have been knighted long ago. (In 1968, he was a made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor and one which requires the approval of the sovereign). If he were an American, he might have been honored by the Kennedy Center. If he lived in the company town of Los Angeles, he likely would have several more Oscar nominations to go with the one for "The Last Station."

As it is, as attested to in his witty and well-written autobiography, Christopher Plummer has been amply rewarded in life. In 1970, Plummer - a self-confessed 43-year-old "bottle baby" - married his third wife, dancer Elaine Taylor (I), who helped wean him off his dependency on alcohol. They live happily with their dogs on a 30-acre estate in Weston, and, although he spends the majority of his time in the United States, he remains a Canadian citizen.

"An actor should be a mystery," says Christopher Plummer. But these days actors must do publicity, he laments -- so the popular film and stage actor has agreed to answer numerous questions in a surprisingly candid, honest manner in this 1967 CBC-TV interview. He opens up about his reluctance to star in The Sound of Music, gives his opinion on why actors tend to drink heavily, criticizes Hollywood's "star system," and explains why he chose acting over a music career.

Spouses: Elaine Taylor (2 October 1970 - present) Patricia Lewis (4 May 1962 - 1967) (divorced) Tammy Grimes (19 August 1956 - 1960) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia:

Father, with Tammy Grimes, of actress Amanda Plummer. Awarded The Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award by The Players, 1997. He was awarded the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) in the 1968 Queen's Honours List for his services to drama. Grew up in the village of Senneville, Québec, Canada. Is the great grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.

On April 22 he was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre by the Roundabout Theatre. His The Sound of Music (1965) co-star Julie Andrews was among those in attendance. [April 2002] His first paying part was in "Machina Infernale" (The Infernal Machine) by , in which he worked with another young Montreal actor, William Shatner. The two were reunited years later when they both appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Ontario on June 8, 2004. Schoolmate of jazz piano master Oscar Peterson. Has won two Tony Awards: in 1974, as Best Actor (Musical), playing the title role in "Cyrano," and in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), playing the title role of John Barrymore in "Barrymore." He has also been nominated for the Tony four other times: as Best Actor (Dramatic), in 1959 for "J.B.," and as Best Actor (Play), in 1982 for Shakespeare's "Othello," in 1994 for "No Man's Land," and in 2004 for Shakespeare's "King Lear." He and his daughter Amanda Plummer both received Emmy nominations in 2005. She won, he didn't. Trained to become a concert pianist before turning his attention to acting. Was actually born on December 13, 1929, although most publications usually state his birthday as December 13, 1927. Is only 13 years older than Charmian Carr who played his daughter in The Sound of Music (1965). Invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007]. One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007. Turned down the role of Gandalf in 's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and admits to regretting that decision.

Personal Quotes

(why he prefers playing evil characters) "The devil is more interesting than God."

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

I'm bored with questions about acting.

[on Julie Andrews] Working with her is like being hit over the head with a Valentine's card.

Where Are They Now

(December 2002) Headlining "Royal Christmas" Tour in Mid-west/East-coast US and Ontario with Sound of Music Co-Star Julie Andrews, ; The Royal Philharmonic; Kiev, London and Bolshoi Ballets; and the Westminster Bell Choir and Westminster Concert Choir from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey.

(March 2004) Playing title character in Shakespeare's "King Lear" in the Lincoln Center Production. Through April 2004

(May 2007) Long time resident of Fairfield County's Weston, Connecticut.

(June 2008) Acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. Playing the role of Caesar in "Caesar and Cleopatra" a play. From August 7 to Novemeber 9.

(2008) Release of his book, "In Spite of Myself: A Memoir".

(August 2010) Stratford Shakespeare Festival - as in .

(2011) Barrymore the Play at Toronto's historic Elgin Theatre for 30 performances January 27th - March 9th, 2011.

(February 26, 2012) On 26 February 2012 Christopher Plummer won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his rol in "Beginners". He may be the oldest Oscar winner ever but he's not showing any signs of slowing down. The 82-year-old came on stage to accept his best supporting actor award and stared at the statue before remarking on how great it looked. "You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life?" Plummer asked. Backstage, Plummer told reporters of the recognition he's received recently, "it's sort of a renewal, it has recharged me. I hope I can do it for another 10 years at least".

Elaine Taylor Biography

Elaine Taylor (actress)

Elaine Regina Taylor (born 17 October 1943) is an English-born actress, best known as a leading lady in comedy films of the late 1960s and early '70s. She is married to the Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.

Early life

Elaine Taylor was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. With the encouragement of her mother Frances, she took dancing lessons as a child and, as early as 1950, had her hair styled by the celebrated Raymond Bessone (“Mr Teasy Weasy”) for the part of Will O’the Wisp. Taylor later studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and joined the London Festival Ballet.

TV and radio

In the mid 1960s Taylor appeared in episodes of various British television series, including The Benny Hill Show (1965), The Lance Percival Show (1966), in which she sang as well as taking part in comedy sketches, The Old Campaigner (1967), which featured Terry-Thomas as a womanising plastics salesman, and Mr. Rose, starring William Mervyn as a retired senior policeman (1968). Her appearance with Benny Hill on 18 December 1965 included a gender- reversal parody of the 1956 film Baby Doll that Hill repeated in 1974 with Diana Darvey. Taylor is thought also to have been the announcer of a sketch in which Hill first performed his song "Those Days" in imitation of Sonny and Cher. She worked again with Hill in the third series of his BBC radio show Benny Hill Time, which started on the Light Programme on 27 February 1966 and featured, among others, Patricia Hayes and Peter Vernon.

Early film career

In 1967 Taylor was a “Bond girl” (with, among others, , Barbara Bouchet and Alexandra Bastedo) as Peg in Casino Royale and played on both stage and screen with Tommy Steele in . In 1968 she took the modish role of Victoria Ponsonby in the Diamonds for Breakfast - in Leslie Halliwell's view, a "yawning comedy caper yarn embellished with sex and slapstick" - that featured also , in his first English language film, and Rita Tushingham. In the same year she played Shirley Blair, pregnant fiancée of Tom Taggart (Christian Roberts), in Hammer's adaptation of Bill MacIlwraith's play The Anniversary, a "high camp" starring and . Tom Chantrell’s famous poster for The Anniversary featured a front-on still of Taylor in brassiere and panties below the slogan (attributed to Davies’ character) “I Spy with my little eye/Something beginning with SEX … and I mean to put a stop to it”.

Marriage to Christopher Plummer

How Elaine and Christopher met:

In 1969 Taylor met Christopher Plummer, best known at the time for his role as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), while they were both filming Lock Up Your Daughters in Kilkenny, . Plummer was almost fourteen years older, twice divorced, and had recently been partnering ' ex-wife Elizabeth Rees-Williams. Taylor's usually "mousy" hair, which was tinted red on location, is said to have appealed to Plummer. For her part, Taylor, who initially thought Plummer "a most conceited prig", agreed to meet him again in London provided that he reduced his consumption of alcohol.

Christopher: "Elaine had now completed her role in the movie and was on her way back to London for yet another engagement -- a busy and popular lady. I felt absolutely empty and as despondent as anyone could be. As she was leaving, I told her I was going to miss her dreadfully and hoped she would let me see her in London. 'All right, but on one condition,' she warned, 'that you cut down on the booze.'"

Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 471.

Wedding Date:

Elaine and Christopher were married on October 2, 1970 at the Unitarian Church in Montreal, Canada. The officiant was Reverend Phillip Moreton and Christopher's childhood friend Toby Johnson was best man. Toby's wife Alice was the bridesmaid. They were the only guests at the wedding. The two couples celebrated the wedding by having lunch together at the Ritz. The officiant, the Reverend Philip Moreton, had married Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in 1964. Taylor and Plummer reached their ruby wedding (40th) anniversary in 2010.

Christopher: "He [Reverend Moreton] was tall and exceptionally handsome with a beautiful speaking voice, which made the verses sing and gave our service an unexpected romance ... It was the smallest and best wedding ever."

Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 535.

Since the 1970s Plummer and Taylor have lived on a rambling English style estate at Weston, Connecticut. Taylor has no children of her own; her stepdaughter is the actress Amanda Plummer (born 1957), Plummer’s daughter from his first marriage to Tammy Grimes. Over the years she appears to have moderated aspects of Plummer's behaviour. A few months after their marriage, remarked wryly to Kenneth Tynan that Plummer was "his own worst enemy—but only just,"while Plummer's own autobiography almost forty years later was entitled In Spite of Myself. Plummer has described Taylor's positive influence on his life as follows:

a combination of Edith Cavell and Julia Child ... a nurse and a cook. I feel guilty sometimes that I denied her a wonderful life, that she's wasted it on some terrible old ham. She could have married a duke or a prince! And she knows it. But being British, you see, she never complains. She's very well trained.

Career in 1970s and '80s

In the early 1970s Taylor appeared in two films, 's The Games (about marathon runners' preparations for the 1960 Olympics and All the Way Up (both 1970), an episode of ITC's Jason King ("A Royal Flush", 1972) and various televised dramas for the BBC, including Trelawny of the Wells (as Rose Trelawny, 1972) and Kingsley Amis' Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (as Emily, Lady Fairfax alongside 's Watson, 1974). In the mid she returned to television in America in The George McKenna Story (1986) and Sharing Richard (1988) and co-produced the 1987 film Love Potion. Taylor’s most recent appearance is thought to have been in the TV film Till Death Us Do Part (1992) (based on a true crime and unrelated to the long-running British TV comedy series of the same name).

Other interests

Taylor is a gourmet French cook and she and Plummer renovated or designed houses in West Hollywood, Grasse and London before settling in Weston.

Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor

The third time appears to be the charm for Christopher Plummer. He has been married to his third wife, Elaine Taylor, since 1970. Here is more information on how they met, their wedding, and more.

Born: Christopher Orme Plummer: December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Elaine Regina Taylor: October 17, 1943 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, .

... and lastly, a lady called Elaine, my wife of 43 years, whose bravery and beauty haunts me still." (Christopher Plummer's acceptance speech on Golden Globes 2012 receiving Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in 'Beginners' )

How Elaine and Christopher Met:

Christopher met Elaine in 1969 on the set of Lock Up Your Daughters! and married a year later. Christopher: "Elaine had now completed her role in the movie and was on her way back to London for yet another engagement -- a busy and popular lady. I felt absolutely empty and as despondent as anyone could be. As she was leaving, I told her I was going to miss her dreadfully and hoped she would let me see her in London. 'All right, but on one condition,' she warned, 'that you cut down on the booze.'" Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 471.

Wedding Date: Elaine and Christopher were married on October 2, 1970 at the Unitarian Church in Montreal, Canada. The officiant was Reverend Phillip Moreton and Christopher's childhood friend Toby Johnson was best man. Toby's wife Alice was the bridesmaid. They were the only guests at the wedding. The two couples celebrated the wedding by having lunch together at the Ritz. Christopher: "He [Reverend Moreton] was tall and exceptionally handsome with a beautiful speaking voice, which made the verses sing and gave our service an unexpected romance ... It was the smallest and best wedding ever." Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 535.

Children:

Christopher has one daughter:

Amanda Plummer: Born in 1957, Amanda is an actress. Her mother is Tammy Grimes. Alex Witchel: "From the time he and Grimes split in 1960 until 1981, he saw the child only once, during a visit to London when she was 8. Though he says she "has become more of a friend now," the relationship raises all sorts of questions, none of them happy."

Source: Alex Witchel. "Christopher Plummer's legendary life, wonderfully retold." NYTimes.com. 11/19/2008.

Occupations: Christopher: Actor, producer, architect, concert pianist. Elaine: Dancer, actress, producer, interior decorator, gourmet cook. Residence: Elaine and Christopher have lived since the 1970s in Weston, Connecticut in a 100-year old English Manor-styled home. They have about 25 acres of land on their estate.

Previous Marriages: Christopher has two previous marriages.

Tammy Grimes: Christopher and actress Tammy Grimes were married on 8/19/1956 in Cherokee Castle in Colorado by the local honorary sheriff. They had a small wedding with only five guests present. After having one child together, they had a Mexican divorce in 1960. Christopher: "We were two fans observing and admiring each other at 40 paces - hardly to secure a union; we were having too much fun enjoying our separate ascendancies - much too immature to take on the twin responsibilities of marriage and raising a child." Source: Alex Witchel. "Christopher Plummer's legendary life, wonderfully retold." NYTimes.com. 11/19/2008. Christopher: "Well, I had a Tammy Grimes at home and that was terrific and we'd had a baby girl and that too was terrific, but the theatre and our careers consumed our attention and we'd now grown further and further apart. I was a lousy husband and an even worse farther and Tam's and my life together was clearly over." Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 299.

Patricia "Trish" Audrey Lewis: Christopher married columnist Trish Lewis on 5/4/1962 after she recovered from brain surgery after being hurt in an automobile accident. Their wedding took place at the Marylebone Registry office in London. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1967. Christopher: "One thing was certain; the accident had loomed over our marriage like the sword of Damocles. The life-threatening urgency and horror of it had inflated our romance to such an extreme it had robbed us of all passion, and everything that followed seemed dry and anticlimactic. An inexplicable resentment grew between us and our fights became dangerously more and more frequent. It had been only five years or so but for us -- too long. Divorce proceedings were swift and painless." Source: Christopher Plummer. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir. 2008. pg. 440. Source: Victor Davis. "Are Christopher Plummer's vile tantrums and arrogance to blame for fact he's never won an Oscar?"

Christopher Plummer quotes

For his performance in The Last Station he received a personal Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor at the 2010 Oscars.

“Well, I said it’s about time! I mean, I’m 80 years old for God’s sake. Have mercy.”

He is busier than ever before, and puts this down to the fact that:

“There’s not that many old actors. They all died. I’m one of the last men standing! I think there’s maybe four of us. I hope the other b…….s die first”

In 2008 he finished writing his memoirs for his riotous autobiography ‘In Spite of Myself’.

“I wanted people to know how one develops through working with other extraordinary actors and actresses, what one learns.”

To sum up his life as an actor, Plummer says:

“I love my profession. It keeps me young. It’s my hobby as well as my profession…………It’s a great profession if you’re lucky at it. I’ve had a wonderful life, seen the world and they’ve paid for it!”

Quotes about the Marriage of Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor:

Victor Davis: "So, thanks to Elaine, his sweet-natured wife of 40 years, it seems Plummer's blood is slower to boil these days."

More Christopher Plummer Quotes:

“I’ve been very fortunate…it’s just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven’t had to suffer for my art but I’ve suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.” – Christopher Plummer

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly one.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I`m bored with questions about acting.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning.

(why he prefers playing evil characters) "The devil is more interesting than God."

A lot of great people have seen people portray them and loathed them. But I did my best and I don`t think there is anything to be offended at.

More . . . Christopher Plummer quotes:

The Insider was a hot movie and an important movie and it was upgraded from the movies I had been doing," Plummer says. "You see, I loved the theater and I stayed in the theater most of my life and I was a bit snobbish about it. I made a lot of movies through the '60s and '70s which were pretty awful, but then most of the movies in the '60s and early '70s were pretty awful. The quality wasn't always there, unfortunately, but the money was. And I was grateful for that because I could afford to then do what I wanted to do in the theater. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

Drinking was particularly fun and fashionable in the '50s. Drugs started to creep in and do their rather remote work in the late '60s and '70s. And then in the '80s and '90s everyone started to get terribly serious — drinking water all the time — or taking drugs. Poor old booze took a back seat. Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

I adored the part [Hal in Beginners] and I thought it was so well written and so unsentimental and brave and witty and free. Totally free," Plummer says. "Of course he was so relieved to be able to come out of the closet in such a happy way because he was so fond of his latest boyfriend. I just adored the way it was tackled. It was tackled with such humanity and sweetness and fun. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. Christopher Plummer

I happened to be sort of leading man-looking. And then finally I was dissipated enough in my 40s to look like a character actor and that's when everything began to change. And I enjoyed being a character actor because of course the roles were so much more interesting. It started with John Huston's film The Man Who Would Be King, which is a very good film, and certainly after The Insider. And now I'm getting nice lovely scripts like Beginners. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

I love what I'm doing on the screen, particularly now. The roles are getting richer and more interesting as I grow older — I'm very lucky. Or maybe there's nobody left, at my age. I have no competition anymore because I am the oldest man on .

Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

I loved the script because I thought it made Tolstoy — who I always thought was rather dry — seem full of humanity and humor. Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

I made my mark in the theater, in the mid-'50s. And I continued to try and keep that standard going for the rest of my life. And I hope I have. Films are another matter. The theater is our medium, and the writers. Screen is the medium of a committee, largely so I'm not responsible for how things ended up. Christopher Plummer - Dark Horizons interview (28 December 2009)

I was a bit bored with the character [Captain Georg von Trapp]. Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. And the subject matter is not mine. I mean, it can't appeal to every person in the world. Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. Christopher Plummer

I'm bored with questions about acting. Christopher Plummer

I'm glad to see [drinking is] coming back these days, particularly in the young — at least they've got good taste. Because I could never connect with my friends who were on drugs. They were in a totally gaga world, but at least booze — you could be violent, you could be funny, you could tell stories. It was a much more gregarious form of anathematizement. Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

I'm in good shape. I could play 60 with ease. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. Christopher Plummer

I've been very fortunate — it's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist. Christopher Plummer

In my book I call [The Sound of Music] 'S&M'. An abbreviated version. But I'm grateful for it because it certainly was famous and put me in the public eye and I could help fill a theater when I was doing the great works. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write. Christopher Plummer

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Christopher Plummer

Oh, [acting is] the most fascinating job. I mean, it's a vocation, a hobby, a job. It's everything to me. I won't go as far as saying it's a religion but I think it's more fun than religion. It's — romance, and escape. And I've been escaping all my life. I love it. Christopher Plummer - Dark Horizons interview (28 December 2009)

The devil is more interesting than God. Christopher Plummer

The drama critic for The gave me a good review in a high-school production of . It went to my head. Christopher Plummer

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. Christopher Plummer

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play. Christopher Plummer

There were so many nuns around [the The Sound of Music set], I was determined to play Peck's Bad Boy and be the naughty fellow. Well it needed somebody naughty to keep it away from mawkish sentimentality. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

There's a whole new generation every year, poor kids, that have to sit through [The Sound of Music]. But It was a very well-made movie, and it's a family movie and we haven't seen a family movie, I don't think, on that scale for ages. I don't mind that. It just happened to be not my particular cup of tea. Christopher Plummer - Dark Horizons interview (28 December 2009)

These young actors are not trained enough. They jump into television and want to be stars without doing any work. And they do become stars, but will it last? Christopher Plummer - Boston Globe interview (31 January 2010)

Too many people in the world are unhappy with their lot. And then they retire and they become vegetables. I think retirement in any profession is death, so I'm determined to keep crackin'. Christopher Plummer

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning. Christopher Plummer

Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy. Christopher Plummer - on his first Oscar nomination, to CBC (7 March 2010)

When I went to see [Up], I thought, 'My god, what an absolutely marvelous movie this is. I mean it really is human. It really has everything in it. And that's the sort of thing that surprises you and that's the pleasant one when you can't dream of what it's going to look like and there it is, much more thrilling than you ever dreamed it would be. Christopher Plummer - Robert Siegel interview for All Things Considered (3 June 2011)

Working with [Julie Andrews] is like being hit over the head with a Valentine's card. Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer Speeches

Year: 2011 (84th) Academy Awards Category: Actor in a Supporting Role Film Title: Beginners Winner: Christopher Plummer Presenter: Melissa Leo Date & Venue: February 26, 2012; Hollywood & Highland Center

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: [To the Oscar:] You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother's womb, I was already rehearsing my Academy thank you speech. But it was so long ago, mercifully for you I've forgotten it. But I haven't forgotten who to thank. The Academy, of course, for this extraordinary honor. And my fellow nominees: Kenneth, Nick, Jonah, dear Max. I'm so proud to be in your company. Of course I wouldn't be here at all if it weren't for Michael Mills and his enchanting film, "Beginners." And my screen partner, of course, Ewan McGregor, that superb artist who I would happily share this award with if I had any decency -- but I don't. All the producers at Olympus Films, especially Leslie Urdang and Miranda de Pencier. All the people at Focus, for their tremendous generosity and support. And not to mention my, haha, little band of agents provocateurs: Lou Pitt and his wife Berta, Carter Cohn, Pippa Markham, Perry Zimel, who've tried so hard to keep me out of jail. My daughter Amanda, who always makes me proud. And lastly, my long-suffering wife, Elaine, who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life. Thank you so much.

Year: 2012 Golden Globe Awards Category: Actor in a Supporting Role Film Title: Beginners Winner: Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer has charmed his way to the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

The legendary actor starred in "Beginners" as Hal Fields, a 70-something man who comes out of the closet after his wife dies. Through flashbacks in the memory of his son, played by Ewan McGregor, the film sees him experience a new freedom and then quickly deteriorate as he dies from cancer. Plummer is equally delightful and tragic; the film delivers the message that it's never too late to be the person you want to be, but that you can never get back time.

Remarkably, the win gives Plummer his first career Golden Globe win

"I want to salute my partner, Ewan -- that wily Scott -- Ewan 'My Heart's in the Highlands' McGregor," he said. "That scene-stealing swine... also, a 21 gun salute goes to Michael Mills, whose talent and wisdom made 'Beginners' such an enchanting story. And of course the rest of the family, including Cosmo my favorite dog... and lastly, a lady called Elaine, my wife of 43 years, whose bravery and beauty haunts me still."

Behind the scenes, he told the press, "Gay characters are human beings. we’re all exactly the same. That's the reason I played it the way I did, not as a caricature. They're a part of our society since the Egyptians, the Greeks - it's part of the human condition. I know there is a lot of antigay sentiment in our society at the moment and I abhor it."

Q&A: Christopher Plummer, , Saturday 13 February 2010

'I'd like to be remembered as benign, beneficent and brilliant, but there's no hope of that'

When were you happiest? When I was skipping school.

What is your greatest fear? Loss of memory.

Which living person do you most admire, and why? My wife of 40 years, because she's beautiful, as wise as Solomon and a Cordon Bleu cook to boot.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? A leaning toward procrastination.

What is the trait you most deplore in others? Man's incessant cruelty to man and to animals, which is almost worse.

What was your most embarrassing moment? Being caught in bed with a lady, by her husband.

Property aside, what's the most -expensive thing you've bought? A Renoir.

What would your super power be? To be able to play superbly Brahms' terrifying Paganini Variations.

What makes you unhappy? The slow disappearance of style.

What do you most dislike about your appearance? I really can't think.

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose? Let's just try to save all living beasts.

Who would play you in the film of your life? Colin Farrell, because he's desperate and because he can play anything.

What is the worst thing anyone's said to you? After slapping Sir a -resounding crack on the back -accompanied by a loud, "How are ya, Jack?" he turned, adjusted his cravat and said in a soft, melli-fluous voice, "And how are you, Christopher, in your own small way?"

What is your guiltiest pleasure? Stealing money from my grand-father's winter coat pockets.

To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My mum, for not showing her my gratitude -before it was too late.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Ma femme, la belle Elaine.

What does love feel like? Agony and ecstasy.

What was the best kiss of your life? My French nanny kissed me at a very tender age. It was long and tempting – my first real turn-on.

What has been your biggest disappointment? Not being a concert pianist.

How often do you have sex? Mentally, nonstop.

What is the closest you've come to death? Skiing at great speed and falling headfirst into a drift. I was starting to suffocate when the ski patrol and their St Bernard got me out.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Arriving at 80 and staying there.

What song would you like played at your funeral? The Liebestod from Tristan And Isolde.

How would you like to be remembered? As being benign, beneficent and -brilliant, but there's no hope of that.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you? Never forget your sense of humour.

The Herald, Friday Nov 16, 2012

Nearing his 83rd birthday hasn't meant Christopher Plummer is slowing down. In fact, he seems to be putting the pedal to the metal.

"I've never worked as hard as I have in my life at the present time and I think it's wonderful," the oldest Oscar winner says. "It keeps me on my toes. It keeps me young. It keeps my memory going."

Plummer has enjoyed a late-career push that has included his first two Oscar nominations in the past three years. He won this year for his role in Beginners as Hal Fields, a museum director who becomes openly gay after his wife of 44 years dies.

Now two of his stage roles have hit the movie screens - The Tempest, which was recorded live over two days in 2010 by Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, and his Barrymore, a two-person play exploring the life of actor John Barrymore that earned Plummer his second Tony in 1997.

"He is a force of nature. He is the tempest itself," says McAnuff, who is still stunned by Plummer's energy and skill. Right after winning the Oscar, McAnuff called to congratulate Plummer, but all he wanted to do was talk about his one-man show.

"He's got an insatiable appetite for hard work and for creativity."

Plummer has always been reluctant to allow his stage performances to be captured on film.

"I don't like it because it's always so cold. There's a barrier between you and the audience, which the screen always puts up, and so it loses a lot of its immediacy generally. So I don't approve really of just filming a play just straight on as it is."

The Tempest and Barrymore are more than just point-a-camera-at-the-stage recordings. In Shakespeare's play, the cameras swoop about the stage, creating close-ups and long shots.

In Barrymore, which was filmed over seven days in and around the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, director and adapter Erik Canuel used an empty theatre for some scenes and filmed others in alleyways. Plummer says the piece got more laughs in front of a live audience, but becomes more emotional on screen.

"I think film does the play justice in both cases. Barrymore is more filmic, but some of the magic does come through very well in The Tempest."

As for his own magic, Plummer hopes it keeps flowing. He laughs at all the accolades he's lately accepting.

"I think that's because I'm getting old. They're sort of saying, 'Oh, we better give it to him now otherwise he'll drop dead."

Christopher Plummer: On drugs vs. drinking, Stratford, and why he’s no longer a monster by Kate Fillion on Sunday, July 4, 2010

Q: Many critics consider you the finest classical actor in North America— A: [Laughs] I don’t know why they stop at North America. What’s wrong with my English acting? I played the in England for years.

Q: On the day of a performance, do you have a particular routine? A: I like to get to the theatre a little early so I can go through the play, but that’s simply to exercise one’s memory, which, particularly at my age, 80, is important.

Q: Is your memory still sharp? A: Touch wood, I haven’t had any scares yet. Acting helps a great deal because you have to memorize everything, it keeps the brain alive. I hope.

Q: Reviewers are ecstatic about your performance of Prospero in The Tempest. What does it feel like when a performance is going well? A: Marvellous, because you know the audience is on your side, will do anything to encourage you along your way. I always say the audience is your real partner, and the other actors come after that.

Q: What do you do when the audience isn’t so responsive? A: You don’t give them your C performance, you try to give them your A performance, and press on. And you have to enjoy it, because otherwise the audience has won.

Q: You’ve said you were “avoiding Prospero like the plague” because, among other things, it’s a very difficult part. Why is it so difficult? A: Prospero is a sort of figurehead in a funny way: for a long time, at of the first half, he’s not present on the stage. And one has to find, in the middle of the piece, some sort of motivation for his sudden depressed feelings—it comes out of left field. That’s the playwright’s fault, I think. Believe it or not, I’m actually criticizing Mr. Shakespeare! The emotional line is not clear, and there’s an emptiness for Prospero, who’s just sitting in his dressing room waiting to go on.

Q: What are you doing in that time period?

A: Trying to stay awake! Trying to keep the energy going, which subsides rather markedly while you sit there waiting for the end of the first act. But you can’t do anything else, because then you’d really lose concentration.

Q: Why do you think people are surprised by the comic touch you bring to the part? A: There’s millions of chances to get unexpected laughs in The Tempest. But the Prosperos I’ve seen over the years have made the mistake of playing him like a dry old professor, or a deacon who wears great big robes and pontificates. Even Gielgud played it rather intellectually, kind of distant. The thing I desperately tried to do was to find the humanity in Prospero. It’s a play about magic, and the disillusion of magic, and he is an extraordinary creature but he is also a human being.

Q: On opening weekend, the audience went crazy. How do you come back down to earth afterwards? A: I’ve been at it forever, it seems, so it doesn’t really take me too far up to the sky now. When I was young, the euphoria was truly extraordinary, and in those days, we drank ourselves down. We hit the bar, kind of anaesthetizing ourselves. We don’t drink so much these days, and I miss it dreadfully, the laughter, the naughtiness of the mid-century. It was such fun. Everybody takes themselves soooo seriously now.

Q: You’ve been in a lot of movies recently with actors known as bad boys: Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell. Do they remind you of yourself? A: A little bit, yes. But I didn’t take my badness quite as far as they did, to world-renown. I kept it rather local, and I’m terribly depressed about that. I’d love to have been just as famously bad as Russell and Colin.

Q: They don’t really behave any worse than you did? A: No, they’re not bad at all, they just have wonderful rebellious natures, which I love. It’s so necessary for an artist to be a rebel, and to want to be unique, original.

Q: And carousing was expected of actors in the fifties, but now it’s portrayed as a sign of emotional trouble. A: Yes. And remember, I was bad before drugs became fashionable. Drugs made everyone introspective and kind of selfish, they take you away from reaching out to people. In the fifties, drinking, we were much more friendly and open. I’m sure I was a terrible bore, but I thought I was being frightfully friendly.

Q: At 80, a lot of people give up things: big houses, work, sometimes driving. Is there anything you’ve given up? A: No, not yet. I certainly don’t want to retire—that is death to me. And I still enjoy driving, rather. Of course, flying, which used to be such fun, is a terrible bore now, unless you are lucky enough to have a time-share in a private plane. Which I don’t.

Q: But aren’t you flying first class, with people kowtowing to you? A: Oh yes, I’m spoiled, people do meet me and take me through the lines so I don’t have to wait as long, but it’s still miserable.

Q: Are there any roles you’d like to revisit that you can’t play because of your age? A: It’s such a shame that the electronic media have taught us to look upon age as a sort of yardstick for what to do or what not to do, because of course in the old days people were playing Hamlet until they were 70—and probably playing him better than they did in their twenties. I could be a terrific Hamlet now, because I know so much more about the theatre, I’ve done so much and could bring that in.

Q: Which Shakespearean characters are left to play? A: I’ve played all the greatest of the Bard’s, with of Othello. And I know that one would get lynched over here playing Othello, which is a shame, because I’d love to take a crack at it. I might want to do , too.

Q: What about Falstaff?

A: I’m not sure about him. It’s very sweaty standing around in those big costumes with padded tummies. The comfort level is not terribly intriguing.

Q: Your co-star in The Last Station, , is playing Prospero in ’s film version of The Tempest. Are there any female parts you’d like to play? A: A very tacky, old Cleopatra! No, wait: the nurse in ! I think that is my dream, to play the nurse.

Q: Seriously, if asked to play the nurse, would you? A: It depends who was playing the other parts, but if they were exciting actors? Yes, damn well I’d do it.

Q: You’ve been extremely busy over the past few years. Do you ever relax? A: It’s a wonderful place to escape to, the theatre. I feel perhaps more relaxed there than in life. And strangely enough, I have just the same energy I always did, and I’m awfully ambitious still, I haven’t lost any of that.

Q: Because Prospero is often a career-capping role, you’ve said you intend to do something very quickly afterwards, to prove you’re not making an exit. So what’s next? A: I’ve been offered the part of Salvador Dali, on film, and I’m dying to do it if they can raise the money. The more outrageous the part, the better I like it. Actually, I’m in a bit of a panic at the moment, there are several great comic characters I’d like to try. It’s got to be comic, I just want to get laughs from now on.

Q: Is it easier to get laughs than to make people cry? A: I think it is easier, despite the famous line that dying is easy but comedy is terrifically hard. Making people cry is out of your hands. You can’t come into a performance with the intention of making people cry, because then you’re dead. Pathos is something totally inexplicable; you can’t play pathos, you have to own it. To simplify: if somebody cries a lot of real tears on the stage, it’s not going to be terribly moving. If you don’t cry, then the audience has a chance to cry.

Q: Would you consider doing something on TV? Like, say, an HBO series? A: HBO is interesting. But a series? No, it just chains you down, you end your life in a series. I’d rather end my life in action, on the stage.

Q: Just keel over while doing a play? A: Absolutely! It’s the way to go. I want to be very present at my own death, I want to know every second of it, every subtle change. It’ll be fascinating.

Q: Do you think people mellow with age? A: Yes, I think they do, though I’m not sure about me. I think I have entered a sort of second childhood: I’m kind of giddy, having a good time. I don’t want to mellow too much, that would be rather dull.

Q: But aren’t you easier to work with now? A: Oh, I’m a lot easier to work with. I’m a pushover, a sweetheart when it comes to my fellow players. I used to be a monster.

Q: What changed? A: In that respect, I suppose I have mellowed. It was just too exhausting to go on being a prick.

Plummer’s Peak By David Edelstein Published May 29, 2011

On playing gay in Beginners: “Goran Visnjic [as Plummer’s young lover] was nervous, ’cause he’s very butch, and he would be pacing up and down and saying, ‘My God, my God, we’ve really got to kiss,’ and I began to get petulant about it and said, ‘What’s so bad about kissing me?’ It was nerve-racking, but once it happened, it was rather pleasurable, actually … We fell into it as if we’d always been gay.”

On not milking his death scene: “My character, Hal, is happy to die knowing he has finally been honest with himself and known a great love. Same with Cyrano de Bergerac. I acted with José Ferrer, who was great in that role, but he made the mistake of crying at his own death, and I said, ‘That is something I can never do.’ ”

On why he wanted to be a bad-boy -actor: “My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates. Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background. I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.”

On his high-living early acting days: -“Jason Robards and I used to play scenes on the stage, and after we’d say the line, we’d ask, under our breath, ‘Where are we starting out tonight?’ It was usually the White Horse Inn, and we couldn’t wait for the show to be over to invade that bigger show called life. I thought at one or two glamorous moments that I wasn’t going to last very long. I thought, If I make 35, it’ll be okay, and then at 40 I got scared, and now that I’m 81 I’m scared to death.”

On being a dark presence on the set of The Sound of Music: “There had to be someone involved who was a shit—cynical, naughty—and I think [director] Robert Wise was grateful for my presence because it helped him steer the movie from veering over the cliff into a sea of mawkishness. But I loved Julie Andrews. The littlest one, who played Gretl, was an absolute monster, she took such attention away from everybody else. Then years later, I was in a play on Broadway, and this blonde bombshell showed up in my dressing room and said, ‘You don’t remember me, do you? My name is … Gretl.’ ”

On reuniting with the cast on Oprah: “I was dreading it, but it was nice to see the kids again. Some have done very well. They didn’t all become actors. Wise …”

On a crucial piece of direction from John Huston on The Man Who Would Be King: “At the end, when they bring the head [of ], [my character] Kipling looks at it and says some line, and I tried to cry, and finally John said, ‘Chris, just take the music out of your voice!’ And by Jesus, I suddenly learned if you have a terribly emotional line in a huge close- up, you just have to deadly whisper it. And if you look at those old movie stars—the John Waynes and Gary Coopers—when they have a deadly line to say, it’s absolutely straight. The face does all the rest.”

On playing Mike Wallace: “He was a wonderful villain. He recognized that television is there to humiliate us; it’s the medium of accident and spontaneity, and he used it brilliantly. He once interviewed me and said, with his usual charm and tact, ‘Tell me, Mr. Plummer, why you aren’t considered a household name.’ But I loved his sort of zeroing in and zapping you. I admired his guts.”

On romping with Helen Mirren in The Last Station: “We are old theater buddies, and when you’re making a Hollywood movie, that’s such a relief, to talk the same language. She, who will take her clothes off at the drop of the hat, is the most joyous person to know. We laughed our way through Tolstoy. Can you imagine?”

On acting for in The New World: He’s fascinated by nature, and just cuts to birds. Colin Farrell kept saying, ‘My character, he’s a fuckin’ osprey. That’s how he sees me.’ You’d be playing a passionate scene, and he’d say in that strange southern voice of his, mixed with Harvard and Oxford, ‘Ah, jes’ stop a minute, Chris. I think there’s an osprey flying

over there. Do you mind if I just take a few shots?’ I wrote him an infuriated letter because I saw the film and I was hardly in it—he cut my part to shit. And it recalled the story of , the lead in The Thin Red Line. He went to the premiere, and he wasn’t in it! I wrote to Terry and said, ‘You need a writer, baby, you need somebody to follow the -story.’ I was awful to him, but I did say I admired him. He’s an individual—also mad as a hatter.”

Filmography

Christopher Plummer Filmography by Christopher Plummer website: www.christopherplummer.eu

Stage Struck (1958 film) is largely a placid type as the producer who discovers his heart can be reached by love as well as the theatre. Christopher Plummer, who is making his film debut as the playwright whose love she finally spurns, is restrained but effective. Joan Greenwood, as the temperamental star she replaces, is explosively emotional in her exit, and does well as the experienced, aging actor who gives the newcomer both affection and assistance.

STAGE STRUCK; screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz; based on the play "Morning Glory" by Zoe Akins; directed by Sidney Lumet; produced by Stuart Miller for R. K. O. Pictures and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution Company. At the Normandie. Running time: 95 minutes.

Lewis Easton . . . . . Henry Fonda Eva Lovelace . . . . . Rita Vernon . . . . . Joan Greenwood Joe Sheridan . . . . . Christopher Plummer

Wind Across the Everglades (1958) Film directed by . Ray was fired from the film before production was finished, and several scenes were completed by screenwriter , who also supervised the editing. The film features Christopher Plummer in his first lead role (and his second film role overall) and, in a minor role, in his film debut. It was filmed on location in Everglades National Park in Technicolor. Set in the early late 19th century, the film follows a game warden (Christopher Plummer) who arrives in Florida in the hopes of enforcing conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth (), the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers. The film was loosely based upon the life and death of , an early game warden who in 1905 was shot and killed by plume hunters in the Everglades.

A Doll's House (1959 film) A Doll's House is a 1959 made for television movie, directed by George Schaefer. It is based on 's 1879 play A Doll's House.

Cast: Julie Harris — Nora Helmer Christopher Plummer — Torvald Helmer — Nils Krogstad — Kristine Linde Jason Robards — Dr. Rank

Cyrano de Bergerac (1962) In 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano, a musical adaptation of 's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964 film) The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 English-language epic film produced by Samuel Bronston Productions

The timeframe of the film is 180–192 AD, from the last days of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the death of his son and successor Commodus. The film opens with Marcus Aurelius conducting his war to pacify the Germanic tribes along the Danube frontier. He has just summoned the governors of all the Roman provinces to his camp in order to present to them Gaius Metellus Livius (a fictional character) as his heir and successor. This is conceivable because Livius indicates that he had been brought into the imperial family by the emperor, presumably by , and the four previous emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius) had made their adopted sons their heirs.

It is believed that though the film was highly spectacular and considered intelligently scripted, its failure was partly attributable to what was considered the wooden performance of as the loyal general Livius (a fictitious character). In contrast, the performance of Christopher Plummer as the unstable Commodus was considered highly charismatic. As a fledgling motion picture performer—The Fall of the Roman Empire was only his third appearance on film—he began to emerge as a major Hollywood star.

Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Hamlet at Elsinore, is a 1964 made-for-television film version of Shakespeare's play. Presented in the UK on the BBC, and in the U.S. on NET in 1965, it won wide acclaim both for its performances and for being filmed entirely at Elsinore, in the castle in which the play is set. Significantly, it is the only version of the play (so far) to have actually been filmed at Elsinore. The film stars Christopher Plummer as the melancholy Prince of Denmark. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance. Supporting performances were given by such actors as Robert Shaw (as Claudius), and Michael Caine, in his only filmed Shakespeare performance so far, as Horatio. Both actors were, at the time, almost completely unknown to American audiences, and Plummer had only recently gained popularity in the U.S. because of his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp in the smash hit The Sound of Music. Although clips of the film are very rarely shown on television, it has never been released on VHS or DVD, and Plummer himself has stated in an interview that he himself would like it to be released on DVD. The film was directed by Philip Saville

The Sound of Music (1965) Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp, a veteran Austrian navy captain whose wife died, leaving behind their seven children. He extends his military background into raising his children, at first represented as a strict disciplinarian. However, the Captain's attitude toward both the children and Maria softens considerably after she reintroduces music into the family. The Captain is courting Baroness Elsa Schraeder throughout the film, and becomes engaged to her, but they call it off, and he proclaims his love to Maria, marrying her instead. The Captain firmly believes in Austrian independence, proudly displaying the Austrian flag and tearing down the Nazi one, as well as refusing to join the Nazis. He, Maria and the children leave at the end of the film by crossing the Alps to . Plummer's singing voice was dubbed by Bill Lee.

Julie Andrews as , a free-spirited young Austrian woman, studying to become a nun. Due to her often singing and seeming somewhat out of place in the abbey, Mother Abbess sends her to the nearby city of to be governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. Although initially hostile toward her, the children come to love Maria through her introducing the joys of music and singing, and she develops a special relationship with Liesl, the eldest. Throughout the film, the Captain grows closer to both his children and Maria through the reintroduction of music, and Maria falls in love with him. Fearful of how returning the Captain's affections might seem in God's eyes (as she is the children's governess), Maria returns to the abbey, but is convinced to return and see what her love might bring. Eventually, the Captain admits his feelings for her, and they marry. However, the Third Reich is taking power via the Anschluss, prompting Maria and her new family to leave Austria. Julie Andrews was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance.

Inside Daisy Clover 1966

Inside Daisy Clover is a 1966 American drama film based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert. It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, , Roddy McDowall and in her Academy Award nominated role.

Set in the mid-, the plot centers on Daisy Clover (Wood), a teenage tomboy who lives in a ramshackle trailer with her eccentric mother (Gordon) on a California beach and dreams of Hollywood stardom. She submits a song recording to the well-known film producer Ray Swan (Plummer), who puts her under contract. Ray and his wife Melora (Katharine Bard) foster Daisy's rise to fame by any means necessary, forcing Daisy to deal with the pressures of stardom and the Swans' manipulation of her life and career. Daisy reluctantly accepts the placement of her mother in a mental institution, to protect Daisy's reputation as "America's valentine", and is told to tell any interviewers that her mother is dead.

Principal cast: Natalie Wood: Daisy Clover Christopher Plummer: Raymond Swan Robert Redford: Wade Lewis Ruth Gordon: The Dealer (Daisy's Mother) Katharine Bard: Melora Swan Roddy McDowall: Walter Baines Peter Helm: Milton Hopwood

Triple Cross (1966) Triple Cross is a 1966 British film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand. It was based loosely on the real life story of Eddie Chapman, believed by the Nazis to be their top spy in Great Britain whilst in fact he was an MI5 double agent known as 'Zigzag'. The film was released in in December 1966 as La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman but elsewhere in Europe and the US in 1967 as Terence Young's Triple Cross. The title comes from Chapman's signature to mark he was freely transmitting by radio, a Morse XXX.

Cast: Christopher Plummer - Eddie Chapman - Countess Trevor Howard - British Intelligence Officer Gert Fröbe - Col. Steinhager - Paulette - Col. Baron von Grunen Harry Meyen - Lt. Keller

The Night of the Generals (1967) The Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense/ set in World War II, adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst.[1] It stars Peter O'Toole, , , , Joanna Pettet and . The film was produced by and directed by Anatole Litvak, with a musical score by . The screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Joseph Kessel. also contributed to the screenplay but was uncredited. Much of the film, a British/French co-production, was shot on location in Warsaw, which was exceptionally rare for a major Western film at the height of the Cold War. The murder of a prostitute in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1942 draws Abwehr Major Grau (Omar Sharif) into an investigation where the evidence points to the killer being one of three German general officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler (), General Kahlenberg (Donald Pleasence), his chief of staff, and General Tanz (Peter O'Toole). Grau’s investigation is cut short by his summary transfer to Paris at the instigation of these officers.

Cast: Peter O'Toole as General Tanz Omar Sharif as Major/Oberstleutnant Grau Tom Courtenay as Gefreiter Kurt Hartmann Donald Pleasence as General Kahlenberg

Joanna Pettet as Ulrike von Seydlitz-Gabler Philippe Noiret as Inspector Morand Charles Gray as General von Seydlitz-Gabler as Eleanore von Seydlitz-Gabler John Gregson as Oberst Sandauer Nigel Stock as Feldwebel Otto Köpke Christopher Plummer as Field Marshal Rommel

Oedipus the King (1967) This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods. Directed by: Philip Saville Written by: Michael Luke Philip Saville

Cast: Christopher Plummer as. Oedipus as. Jocasta (I) as. Creon as. Tiresias as. Messenger Roger Livesey as. Shepherd as. Chorus Leader Frederick Ledebur as. King Laius Dimos Starenios as. Priest Alexis Mann as. Palace Official Oenone Luke as. Cressida Luke as. Xemene Minos Argyrakis as. Chorus Manos Destounis as. Chorus

Nobody Runs Forever (1968) Nobody Runs Forever also called The High Commissioner is a 1968 film directed by Ralph Thomas based on 's 1966 novel The High Commissioner. It stars Rod Taylor as Australian policeman Scobie Malone and Christopher Plummer as the Australian High Commissioner in England caught up in corrupt dealings, during delicate negotiations. Taylor's production company was involved in making the film as was the American Selmur Productions

Plot Police Sergeant Scobie Malone (Taylor) is summoned to by the Premier of New South Wales (Leo McKern) who at the time was the controversial Sir Robert Askin. The Australian High Commissioner in London, Sir James Quentin (Christopher Plummer) is wanted for a 25 year old murder charge, that the Premier, Quentin's gruff political rival, has discovered. Upon arrival in London, Malone meets Lady Quentin (Lilli Palmer) and her husband the sophisticated Sir James, as well as Sir James's secretary (Camilla Sparv). Sir James offers no objection to the murder charges but demands several days before departure as he is conducting delicate peace negotiations. As Malone waits as a guest of the High Commissioner, he prevents assassination attempts against Quentin by a dangerous spy ring headed by Maria Cholon (Daliah Lavi).

Filmed in and London, the film was the last big screen appearance of Franchot Tone who plays the American ambassador. Rod Taylor is memorable in one of the few roles where he played an Australian. He plays Malone as a tough single Outback policeman unlike the married Sydney Detective Sergeant of the original books Taylor's unsophisticated integrity is contrasted with the London diplomatic scene throughout the film.

Battle of Britain (1969)

Battle of Britain is a 1969 Technicolor film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz. The film broadly relates the events of the Battle of Britain. The script by James Kennaway and Wilfred Greatorex was based on the book The Narrow Margin by Derek Wood and Derek Dempster. The film endeavoured to be an accurate account of the Battle of Britain, when in the summer and autumn of 1940 the British RAF inflicted a strategic defeat on the Luftwaffe and so ensured the cancellation of Operation Sealion - Hitler's plan to invade Britain. The huge strategic victory of the outnumbered British pilots would be summed up by Winston Churchill in the immortal words: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". The film is notable for its spectacular flying sequences, echoing those seen in Angels One Five (1952) but on a far grander scale than had been seen on film before; these made the film's production very expensive. It is shown regularly on British television.

Cast The film has a large all-star international cast. It was notable for its time for the portrayal of the Germans by subtitled German-speaking actors. Commonwealth Laurence Olivier as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Fighter Command. Trevor Howard as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park, Air Officer commanding No. 11 Group RAF. Patrick Wymark as Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Officer commanding No. 12 Group RAF. Christopher Plummer as Canadian fighter pilot, Squadron Leader Colin Harvey. Since Plummer is Canadian, he asked for his character's RAF uniform to display the "Canada" shoulder flashes. Michael Caine as Squadron Leader Canfield as the British ambassador to Switzerland.

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a 1969 film based on the play of the same name. With a small rag-tag band of soldiers, Franciso Pizarro enters the Inca Empire and captures its leader, . Pizarro promises to free him in return for a golden ransom, but later finds himself conflicted between his desire to conquer and his friendship for his captive.

Cast Robert Shaw as Christopher Plummer as Atahualpa as Hernando de Soto as Young Martin

Lock Up Your Daughters (1969) Lock Up Your Daughters is a musical based on an 18th century comedy, Rape Upon Rape, by Henry Fielding and adapted by Bernard Miles. The lyrics were written by and the music by Laurie Johnson. It was first produced on the London stage in 1959. In 1969, it was made into a film starring Christopher Plummer, , and , but the songs were deleted. A film based on the musical and play was directed by the musical's director, Peter Coe. It was released in the UK in March 1969 and in the US in October 1969. Filmed in Kilkenny Ireland by Domino Films it ran for 102 minutes. The film originally was given an "X" certificate (over 18's) by the UK Censor, but it was given a "15" on video. In his review, Roger Greenspun wrote: "...a three-strand plot that has been so smothered in atmosphere, activity and authenticity that even the great traditions of theatrical untruth cannot breathe life into it. The production values of "Lock Up Your Daughters!" are ambitious enough to fill three movies, but they are not sufficient to substitute for one."

Film Cast Christopher Plummer - Lord Foppington Susannah York - Hilaret

Glynis Johns - Mrs Squeezum Ian Bannen - Ramble Tom Bell - Shaftoe Elaine Taylor (she was to become Christopher Plummer’s 3rd wife)

Waterloo (film) 1970 Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk Produced by Dino De Laurentiis Written by H. A. L. Craig Waterloo (Russian: Ватерлоо) is a 1970 Soviet-Italian film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It was the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo, and was famous for its lavish battle scenes. The film failed at the box office. This, in part, led director to abandon a film he was preparing on Napoleon. It starred Rod Steiger (portraying Napoleon Bonaparte) and Christopher Plummer (portraying the Duke of Wellington) with cameos by Orson Welles (Louis XVIII of France). Other stars included as General Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal Ney. The film includes some 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as extras ("it was said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world"[1]). Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. These brought an epic quality to the battle scenes

Don Juan in Hell (1971) BBC (TV series 1965–1983)

The Pyx (1973) The Pyx (also known as The Hooker Cult Murders and La Lunule) is a 1973 Canadian supernatural thriller film starring and Christopher Plummer. It is based on the 1959 book of the same title, written by Montreal author, John Buell. A motorist witnesses a woman falling or jumping from a tenement building. Police arrive on the scene and find a crucifix and a small metal container (a pyx). As the investigation continues, it is revealed that the dead woman is Elizabeth Lucy, a prostitute and heroin addict. Suspects in Elizabeth's death are soon murdered one by one, and evidence of occult ritual begins to surface, leading to a confrontation with a cult leader who may be possessed by Satan himself.

Cast Karen Black as Elizabeth Lucy Christopher Plummer as Det. Sgt. Jim Henderson as Det. Sgt. Pierre Paquette Jean-Louis Roux as Keerson Yvette Brind'amour as Meg as Superintendent Lee Broker as Herbie Lafram Terry Haig as Jimmy Robin Gammell as Worther Louise Rinfret as Sandraessed by Satan himself.

After the Fall (1974) is a play by American dramatist . The original performance opened in New York City on January 23, 1964, directed by Elia Kazan and starring and Jason Robards Jr., with an early appearance by . Kazan also collaborated with Miller on the script. It is one of Miller's most personal plays, a thinly veiled personal critique centered around Miller's recently failed marriage to . The plot takes place inside the mind of Quentin, a New York Jewish intellectual who decides to reexamine his life in order to determine if he should marry his most recent love, Holga

A television production of the play was shown in 1974. It starred Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, and a young Brooke Shields.

The Happy Prince (film) First shown in 1974 The Happy Prince is an animated short film adaptation of the short story by . The film was produced in 1974 by the Canadian-based Potterton Productions as a followup to its 1971 film The Selfish Giant. An animated version of the story was produced in 1974, starring Glynis Johns as the swallow and Christopher Plummer as the Prince.

After the Fall (1974) This made-for-television remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. Christopher Plummer as Dr. Joe Sherman.

The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) Directed by , Produced by Blake Edwards, Written by The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in 1975. The film stars in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance, after the original The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark.

Herbert Lom also reprises his role as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus. The film also features the return of the character Sir Charles Litton (the notorious Phantom), now played by Christopher Plummer rather than David Niven, who was unavailable but would later return for Trail of the Pink Panther. The Pink Panther diamond once again plays a central role in the plot.

Cast Peter Sellers as Insp. Jacques Clouseau Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton Catherine Schell as Lady Claudine Litton Herbert Lom as Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus

Conduct Unbecoming (film) 1975 Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 British drama film, an adaptation of the Barry England play Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred an ensemble cast of actors including Michael York, and Trevor Howard.

Cast Michael York Lieutenant Drake Richard Attenborough Major Roach Trevor Howard Colonel Strang Captain Harper Christopher Plummer Major Wimbourne Susannah York Mrs Scarlett James Faulkner Lieutenant Millington Michael Culver Lieutenant Fothergill

The Man Who Would Be King (film) 1975 Directed by John Huston Produced by John Foreman Written by Rudyard Kipling (story) Release date(s) 17 December 1975 The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the short story's anonymous narrator).

The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of the British Raj who set off from 19th century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of Kafiristan. Kipling is

believed to have been inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan during the period of the Great Game between Imperial Russia and the British Empire and James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak in Borneo. Like much of his writing, Kipling's original story takes a nuanced, and in the end cold-edged view of imperialism; in Huston's telling, both East and West have their faults and virtues The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Art Direction - Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis, Peter James Best Writing - John Huston, Gladys Hill Best Costume Design - Edith Head Best Editing - Russell Lloyd

The Day That Shook the World (1975) The Day That Shook the World is the English language title for the 1975 Czechoslovakian/Yugoslavian/German co-production film called Sarajevski atentat. The film, starring Christopher Plummer and Florinda Bolkan is about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914 and the immediate aftermath that led to the outbreak of .When the only surviving heir to the Emperor of Austro- , Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Christopher Plummer) was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, on June 28, 1914, his death set in motion a chain of events which resulted in the First World War. This movie chronicles the events surrounding that death and it aftermath. The assassination gave the Germans and reason to fear that Russia was actively fomenting unrest in the Balkans, for Serbia was a bone of contention throughout the region.

Awards: Movie won one award on San Sebastián International Film Festival in category Special Mention in 1976

Cast: Christopher Plummer as Archduke Ferdinand Florinda Bolkan as Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg as Đuro Šarac Irfan Mensur as Gavrilo Princip Radoš Bajić as Nedeljko Čabrinović Ivan Vyskočil as Mehmed Mehmedbašić Libuše Šafránková as Jelena Otomar Korbelář as Franz Joseph I of Austria Wilhelm Koch-Hooge as Franz Conrad Jiří Holý as Erich von Merizzi Nelly Gaierová as Countess Langus Jiří Kodet as Morsley

Aces High (1976) Aces High is a 1976 British war film directed by and starring Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. The screenplay was written by Howard Barker. The film is based on the 1930s play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff[citation needed] and the memoir Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis[citation needed] of the . It tells the story of an RFC squadron in the First World War and the high turnover of pilots and the strain on the survivors and includes aerial dogfight scenes impressive for the time it was filmed.

Cast: (Name in brackets gives the character's equivalent in Journey's End.) Malcolm McDowell - Maj. John Gresham (Capt. Dennis Stanhope) Christopher Plummer - Capt. "Uncle" Sinclair (Lt. Osborne) Simon Ward - Lt. Crawford (2nd Lt. Hibbert) - Lt. Stephen Croft (2nd Lt. Raleigh) David Wood - Lt. 'Tommy' Thompson (2nd Lt. Trotter) John Gielgud - Headmaster Trevor Howard - Lieutenant Colonel Silkin

Richard Johnson - Major Lyle - Brigadier General Whale Christopher Blake - Lieutenant Roberts David Daker - Mess Corporal Bennett - Corporal Albert Joyce Ron Pember - Lance Corporal Eliot Tim Pigott-Smith - Major Stoppard

Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV mini-series 1976) The Moneychangers is a 1975 novel written by Arthur Hailey. A television miniseries bearing the same name and based on the novel was broadcast in 1976. The Moneychangers is a great adaptation of the Hailey novel, but the greatest claim to fame in this action packed story, is its cast, the fact that Christopher Plummer won an Emmy Award as best actor for it, and the return of actress to the screen. You'll see pros Like Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer in a quite credible battle over the presidency of a bank. The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank. This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that he is letting them choose a successor. The two vice presidents who are the front runners for the job are Alex Vandervoort and Roscoe Heyward. Now Alex is not exactly running around looking for support, Roscoe can only see the benefits the presidency can give him. So he goes around looking for people who would like to do business with the bank. He goes to George Quartermain, who wants the bank to give him more than they are allowed to. While most of the board are excited of the possibility of going into business with Quartermain, Alex is the only one who is weary of it, as it's a big risk. Alex is not popular also because, while his wife is mentally ill and confined to an insane asylum, he is having an affair with a lawyer, who specializes in helping the disadvantaged, the bank was originally suppose to fund a project to help them but has pulled out, and Alex is also asking them not to. Also the bank is plagued with false credit cards being circulated, so the bank's security officer, who was hired by Alex is not having much luck in finding them, which is another reason why Alex is not so popular.

Jesus of Nazareth (1977 miniseries) Written by Anthony Burgess Directed by Release date April 3, 1977 (1977-04-03) Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 Anglo-Italian television miniseries dramatizing the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament Gospels. The miniseries was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and produced by through his ITC Entertainment company. Zeffirelli co-wrote the screenplay with Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d'Amico. It was filmed entirely on location in Tunisia and . The total runtime is about 6 hours, 20 minutes. Jesus of Nazareth premiered March 27, 1977 on British television on the ITV network courtesy of ITC's parent company, Associated Television; it made its American premiere as an NBC Easter special, on April 3, 1977. For its fifth airing on American television at Easter 1987, TV Guide called Jesus of Nazareth "the best miniseries of all time" and "unparalleled television"

Robert Powell as Jesus "Guest Stars" as Mary Magdalene as the Roman Centurion as the Adulteress as Herodias as Peter James Earl Jones as Balthazar Christopher Plummer as Herod Antipas

The Assignment (1977 film)

Directed by Mats Arehn Produced by Ingemar Ejve Starring Thomas Hellberg Christopher Plummer Carolyn Seymour Release date(s) 11 July 1977 (1977-07-11) The Assignment (Swedish: Uppdraget ) is a 1977 Swedish drama film directed by Mats Arehn and starring Christopher Plummer, Thomas Hellberg and Carolyn Seymour. A Swedish foreign office official travels to South America on a peace-making mission. It was based on the novel Uppdraget by Per Wahlöö. Awards: The Swedish Film Institute's Quality Grant

Cast Christopher Plummer ... Captain Behounek Thomas Hellberg ... Erik Dalgren Carolyn Seymour ... Danica Rodriguez

The Disappearance (1977) The Disappearance is a 1977 British-Canadian thriller film directed by Stuart Cooper and starring Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette and . The wife of an assassin mysteriously disappears.

Cast Donald Sutherland - Jay Mallory Francine Racette - Celandine Christopher Plummer - Deverell

Silver Blaze (TV 1977) "Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir , is one of the twelve in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was adapted in 1937 in the film starring , and a one-off ITV drama starring Christopher Plummer first transmitted on 27 November 1977. The 1988 Granada TV version with was faithful to the original story. One of the most popular of the stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of the eponymous race horse named Silver Blaze, a famous winner, on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer, John Straker. The tale is distinguished by its atmospheric Dartmoor setting, and late Victorian sporting milieu. It also features some of Conan Doyle's most effective plotting, hinging on the famed "curious incident of the dog in the night-time":

Christopher Plummer ... Sherlock Holmes

The Silent Partner (1978 film) Directed by Daryl Duke Produced by Joel B. Michaels Release date(s) March 30, 1979 (USA) Country Canada

The Silent Partner (French title: L'argent de la banque) is a 1978 Canadian directed by Daryl Duke. It stars , Christopher Plummer and Susannah York. The film was the first to be produced by and one of the earliest films from Canada to take advantage of the Canadian government's "Capital Cost Allowance" plans. The Silent Partner is also notable for being one of the very few films to have a score composed by Oscar Peterson, and for featuring an early big-screen appearance by . The Silent Partner is a remake of the Danish film Think of a Number (Tænk på et tal) from 1969 written and directed by Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt. Both are based on the novel Tænk på et tal by Danish writer Anders Bodelsen

Cast overview, first billed only: Elliott Gould ... Miles Cullen Christopher Plummer ... Harry Reikle Susannah York ... Julie Carver Céline Lomez ... Elaine Michael Kirby ... Charles Packard

International Velvet (1978) International Velvet is a 1978 dramatic film. It was a sequel to the 1944 classic, National Velvet. The film stars Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, and Nanette Newman. International Velvet is the story of an American girl, Sarah Brown, who is orphaned when her parents are killed in a car crash. She is sent to England to live with her aunt Velvet Brown and Uncle John. When Velvet was a similar age to Sarah, she and her horse, The Pie, entered the legendary Grand National horse race and won; however, she was instantly disqualified due to her young age and the fact that women were not allowed to ride in the race. The Pie is ultimately put out to stud upon his retirement. He sires his last foal after Sarah's arrival in England. Sarah and Velvet are present for the birth of this foal and Sarah eventually decides that she'd like to purchase him

Cast Tatum O'Neal ... Sarah Brown Christopher Plummer ... John Seaton Anthony Hopkins ... Captain Johnson

Starcrash (1979) Directed by Produced by Nat Wachsberger Starring Gortner Robert Tessier Christopher Plummer Hamilton Camp English / Italian

Starcrash (original Italian title Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione, literally "stellar clashes beyond the third dimension") is an Italian 1979 film, which was also released under the English title of The Adventures of Stella Star (in the US). The film is a low budget and is often regarded as a rip-off of Star Wars (1977). The screenplay was written by Luigi Cozzi (pen name Lewis Coates)[1] and Nat Wachsberger, and Cozzi also directed the film. The cast included , Caroline Munro, Robert Tessier, Christopher Plummer, and David Hasselhoff. The film score is by Oscar winning composer ("Midnight Cowboy", "Goldfinger", "Somewhere in Time", "Dances with Wolves").

Awards for Starcrash (1978) Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1980 Nominated Saturn Award Best Foreign Film Trivia: Only David Hasselhoff and Christopher Plummer have their own voices in the English dubbed version of the film. Everyone else was dubbed by different people. All of Christopher Plummer's scenes as the Emperor were shot in a single day.

Murder by Decree (1979) Murder by Decree (1979) is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper. As Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.

Awards: The film was nominated for 8 in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction (), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Geneviève Bujold) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Christopher Plummer). Cast: Christopher Plummer (Sherlock Holmes) James Mason (Dr. John Watson) David Hemmings (Inspector Foxborough) (Mary Kelly) (Lestrade) (Sir ) Donald Sutherland (Robert Lees) Geneviève Bujold (Annie Crook

Riel (film 1979) Written by Roy Moore Directed by George Bloomfield Produced by John Trent Release date April 11, 1979 Riel is a 1979 Canadian biographical television movie about Métis leader Louis Riel. Louis Riel (Cloutier) leads the Red River and North-West Rebellions against the Canadian government's expansionist ideas leading up to his capture, trial and execution in 1885. Cast Raymond Cloutier ... as Louis Riel Christopher Plummer ... as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

Hanover Street (1979) Hanover Street is a 1979 Anglo-American war film written and directed by Peter Hyams, starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down and Christopher Plummer. Set in London during the Second World War, Lieutenant David Halloran (Harrison Ford) an American bomber pilot serving with the Eighth Air Force in the UK and Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down) a British nurse meet in Hanover Street in a chance encounter during an air raid. They meet again two weeks later in a secret assignation in Hanover Street. Although she is married, Sellinger and Halloran rapidly fall in love. She tries to resist, but is drawn to the charismatic American. By contrast her husband Paul Sellinger (Christopher Plummer) is, by his own description, suave, pleasant, but fairly dull. A former teacher, he is now a trusted member of British intelligence.

Desperate Voyage (TV 1980) Plummer plays a modern-day pirate who hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. His captives on this voyage are Cliff Potts, Christine Belford, Lara Parker and Nicholas Pryor, none of whom have any intention of being tossed into the briny.

The Shadow Box (1980) The play revolves around a trio of terminally ill patients, each of whom lives in a separate cottage at a hospice facility. Each is being interviewed about the process of dying. For most of the play, the interviewer is unseen, which means that characters speak directly to the audience, as if they were the interviewer. The first dying person is Joe, a middle-aged, blue-collar family man. Joe seems well-adjusted and has accepted that he is dying. However, his wife Maggie is in and has not told their son Steve about his father's condition. The second dying person is Brian, a bisexual English professor (Christopher Plummer). He is being cared for by his lover, Mark. They receive a visit from Brian's flamboyant, trashy ex-wife Beverly. Beverly's presence lifts Brian's spirits but rankles Mark. The final dying person is Felicity, an elderly, cantankerous, woman who is suffering from dementia. She is being cared for by her long-struggling, devoted daughter Agnes. Felicity is in

great pain but refuses to die because she remains hopeful that her favorite daughter, Claire, will return to her soon.

Awards 1977 Tony Award for Best Play 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominations 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New American Play

Somewhere in Time (1980 film) Somewhere in Time is a 1980 time travel romance film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, written by Richard Matheson and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright and including an early appearance by then-unknown William H. Macy. Reeve plays Richard Collier, a playwright who becomes smitten by a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis, he travels back in time to the year 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna (portrayed by Seymour). But her manager William Fawcett Robinson (portrayed by Plummer) fears that romance will derail her career and resolves to stop him.

Awards Somewhere in Time has received several awards, including: Saturn Award for Best Costume, Saturn Award for Best Music, Saturn Award for Best . The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.

When the Circus Came to Town (1981) Written by Larry Grusin (Story & screenplay) Directed by Boris Sagal Produced by Robert Halmi Sr. Starring Elizabeth Montgomery Christopher Plummer Eileen Brennan Original channel CBS Release date January 20, 1981 When the Circus Came to Town is an American television movie that originally aired on CBS as a "movie of the week" on January 20, 1981. Directed by Boris Sagal, the film stars Elizabeth Montgomery, Christopher Plummer, and Eileen Brennan

Story: When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Lynn (Montgomery), a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life. Cast Elizabeth Montgomery . . . Mary Flynn Christopher Plummer . . . Duke Royal Eileen Brennan . . . Jessy

Dial M for Murder (TV 1981) A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. cast: ... Margot Wendice Christopher Plummer ... Tony Wendice Anthony Quayle ... Insp. Hubbard Michael Parks ... Max Halliday

Eyewitness (1981 film) Eyewitness is a 1981 thriller film about a television news reporter and a janitor who team up to solve a murder, written by Steve Tesich. The film was directed by Peter Yates, and stars , , and Christopher Plummer. New York janitor, Daryll Deever (Hurt) is an avid fan of TV commentator, Tony Sokolow (Weaver). A wealthy man, suspected of criminal connections is murdered in Daryll's office building and Tony suspects Deever knows something about it. She pursues him for information which Daryll allows as he is romantically interested in Tony and a "cat and mouse" game ensues. This convinces the real killers that Daryll does know vital information about the murder and they pursue the duo over this assumption.

Starring William Hurt Sigourney Weaver Christopher Plummer

The Amateur (1981 film) Directed by Charles Jarrott Produced by (producer) (as Garth H. Drabinsky) (executive producer) Starring: John Savage Christopher Plummer Music by Kenneth Wannberg Cinematography John Coquillon Editing by Stephan Fanfara

The Amateur is a 1982 Canadian crime/thriller film. It is a screenplay Robert Littell was hired to write, which he then used to write the novel by the same name. Plot: When his fiancée is murdered by terrorists, a cryptographer for the CIA blackmails his superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those responsible. Once there, however, he discovers a web of deception underneath his fiancée's death. Nominations: Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Christopher Plummer

Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) Little Gloria... Happy at Last is a 1982 television miniseries directed by Waris Hussein.

It stars , Bette Davis, Michael Gross, Lucy Gutteridge, , , Glynis Johns, , Christopher Plummer and . Based on the book by it tells the story of the real life Gloria Vanderbilt.

It was nominated for six Emmy Awards, including nominations for both Davis and Lansbury. Gutteridge was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Cast: Cast overview, first billed only: Angela Lansbury ... Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Christopher Plummer ... Reggie Vanderbilt

The Scarlet and the Black (1983) The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 made for TV movie starring and Christopher Plummer. In the year 1943, Nazi has occupied Rome completely . The Pope (John Gielgud) is approached by the SS Commandant for Rome- Colonel Hugh Kappler (Christopher Plummer)

who paints a white line around the Vatican confirming the jurisdictional area of the Vatican beyond which SS Men cannot enter. Kappler's main rival is Monsignor O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) an Irishman who arranges safe haven for escaped prisoners of war in Rome including safehouses. He is assisted in this enterprise by several other patriots such as Miss Lombardo, Franchesica, and a number of others. Kappler initially wants to bust the group, however angered by O'Flaherty's repeated successes in thwarting and outsmarting him, he adopts a vendetta against O'Flaherty. During this period Kappler continues to deport Jews to labour camps, and extort large sums of money and gold from them as well as persecuting the general public. After the Allies succeed in landing in and eventually overcoming German resistance- and begin heading to liberate Rome, Kappler worries for his family's safety and requests Monsignor O'Flaherty to save his family as well- however the Monsignor refuses to do so- telling Kappler that he would rather go to hell. Kappler is arrested eventually and questioned by the Allies- and it is at that moment that he is informed that his wife and children were evacuated to Switzerland and he realizes that despite all the enmity - O'Flaherty saved his family. It is told at the end of the film that Kappler eventually becomes a Catholic and baptized by O'Flaherty. He is also visited every month by O'Flaherty and becomes very close to him.

Won Primetime Emmy. Cast: Gregory Peck ... Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty Christopher Plummer ... Col. Herbert Kappler John Gielgud ... Pope Pius XII (as Sir John Gielgud)

The Thorn Birds (TV miniseries 1983) Written by Culver Directed by Daryl Duke

The Thorn Birds is a television mini-series broadcast on ABC between 27 and 30 March 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, , Christopher Plummer as Archbishop Vittorio di Contini-Verchese, , Bryan Brown, , and . It was directed by Daryl Duke and based on a novel by Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the story focuses on three generations of the Cleary Family and spans the years 1920 to 1962. The Mini-series was nominated in 16 categories at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1983, 7 of which were for acting and 3 of those winning

Also nominated for their roles: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special- Richard Chamberlain. Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special- Bryan Brown. Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special- Christopher Plummer. Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special- .

Prototype (TV 1983) An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.

Lily in Love (1984) Directed by Károly Makk Produced by Robert Halmi

Lily in Love is a 1984 Hungarian-American co-production in English language based on a play by Ferenc Molnár, starring Christopher Plummer, and Elke Sommer. It is a tale of comedic deception and romance directed by Károly Makk.

Plummer plays Fitz Wynn, a truly talented but overly-satisfied stage actor who wants to star in a new movie written by his wife, Lily (Smith). She doesn't feel her Fitz is right for the part, and explains to him why and what she's looking for in the role. Fitz proceeds to orchestrate his own transformation into Roberto Terranova, a blonde Italian who seems to be exactly what Lily wants.

Dreamscape (1984) Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing

A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams. Awards for 1985: Golden Raven Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Cast Dennis Quaid ... Alex Gardner ... Doctor Paul Novotny Christopher Plummer ... Bob Blair

Highpoint (1984) A newly hired chauffeur for a wealthy family gets more than he bargained for soon after taking the job. He finds himself in the middle of a murder plot involving the C.I.A. And the Mafia. Starring: Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer, Beverly D Angelo,

Terror in the Aisles (1984) A compilation of trailers and scenes from crime, horror and sci-fi films. Christopher Plummer (segment "The Silent Partner")

Ordeal by Innocence (1985 film) A close film adaptation was made in 1985, starring Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer (... Leo Argyle) and Sarah Miles. Its musical score (by ) has in many quarters been heavily criticised as totally inappropriate for this style of mystery and has given the film a certain notoriety. Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that belongs to Jack Argyle. But he is told that Jack has been executed for the murder of his wife. But the address book can prove that Jack was innocent, so Dr. Calgary starts the investigation .

Játszani kell (TV 1985)

The World of David the Gnome (1985) 1985 episode was narrated by Christopher Plummer The fantastic adventures of David and his wife Lisa traveling around the world for to save to the animals and defeating to the trolls.

Rumpelstiltskin (1985) Rumpelstiltskin is a twenty-four minute animated feature depicting the famous Brothers Grimm story of a miller's daughter and a little man who can spin straw into gold. Family Home Entertainment was the distributor, in association with several Canadian animation firms. The film is making its first trip to DVD on October 30, 2007 coupled with "The Tin Man" in a Holiday two-pack. Cast: Christopher Plummer (narration) Robert Bockstael (Rumpelstiltskin) Charity Brown (Miller's Daughter) Les Lye (Miller) Al Baldwin (King)

The Boy in Blue (1986 film) The Boy in Blue is a 1986 movie by Charles Jarrott starring Nicolas Cage. The movie is based on the life of Toronto sculler Ned Hanlan. Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat." Cast overview, first billed only: Nicolas Cage ... Ned Hanlan Cynthia Dale ... Margaret Christopher Plummer ... Knox David Naughton ... Bill Sean Sullivan ... Walter Melody Anderson ... Dulcie

Crossings (1986): Danielle Steel's 'Crossings' Danielle Steele's WWII is given the epic treatment in this film that was shown across three nights on network TV. At the film's beginning, an industrialist meets the wife of a French ambassador on a transatlantic voyage to Europe. As time and the war progresses, she returns to America when Paris becomes occupied by the Nazis and again encounters the industrialist. An affair ensues. Meanwhile, her husband is rumored to be a Nazi collaborator, but whose side is he really working for? Cheryl Ladd ... Liane DeVilliers Lee Horsley ... Nick Burnham Christopher Plummer ... Armand DeVilliers Jane Seymour ... Hillary Burnham Garrick Dowhen ... Phillip Markham Stewart Granger ... George Hackett ... Alexandra Markham Joanna Pacula ... Marissa Freilich Horst Buchholz ... Martin Goertz Zach Galligan ... Robert DeVilliers ... Craig Lawson

The Boss' Wife (1986) The Boss's Wife is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ziggy Steinberg and starring Daniel Stern, Arielle Dombasle and Christopher Plummer.

If you want success, you've got to grab it. Cast:

Cast overview, first billed only: Daniel Stern ... Joel Keefer Arielle Dombasle ... Louise Roalvang Fisher Stevens ... Carlos Delgado Melanie Mayron ... Janet Keefer Lou Jacobi ... Harry Taphorn Martin Mull ... Tony Dugdale Christopher Plummer ... Mr. Roalvang

An American Tail (1986) An American Tail is a 1986 animated film produced by 's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by , originally released in movie on November 21, 1986. It was the first feature-length animated film produced by . While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets seperated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country. Christopher Plummer as Henri, a pigeon of French descent, who is in New York while building the Statue of Liberty. He is the first to meet Fievel upon entering America. He nurses Fievel back to health, and tells him that he should never give up in his search for his family (via the song "Never Say Never"), a message which Fievel takes to heart.

Spearfield's Daughter (TV mini-series 1986) The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism. Cast: Series cast summary: Christopher Plummer ... Lord Jack Cruze (unknown episodes)

Vampire in Venice (Nosferatu a Venezia) (1986) Vampire in Venice (Nosferatu a Venezia), also known as Nosferatu in Venice, is an Italian released in 1988 and directed by Augusto Caminito, starring Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer and Donald Pleasence. It's an almost completely unrelated sequel to 's Nosferatu the Vampire, only with Kinski returning to reprise his loosely connected role. Donald Pleasence had previously played Dr. John Seward in Dracula (1979 film), and Christopher Plummer later went on to play another vampire hunter, , in the film . The film proved unsuccessful at the Italian box-office and enjoyed limited release abroad. Professor Paris Catalano goes to Venice to investigate the last known appearance of Nosferatu during the Carnival of 1786. Catalano seems to think that the vampire is searching for a means to put an end to his torment and actually be dead. He stays with a family who legend says, has the vampire trapped in a tomb in the basement. After a séance "the vampire" appears and then it becomes a question of how do you put the evil back into the box.

Cast list: Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu Christopher Plummer as Professor Paris Catalano Donald Pleasence as Don Alvise Barbara De Rossi as Helietta Canins Yorgo Voyagis as Dr. Barneval Anne Knecht as Maria Canins Elvire Audray as Uta Barneval

Dragnet (1987 film) Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd and , directed by . The screenplay is written by Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, and Tom Mankiewicz. The original music score was composed by Ira Newborn. The film was marketed with the tagline "Just the Facts". The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.

Cast: Dan Aykroyd Sgt. Joe Friday Tom Hanks Det. Pep Streebek Christopher Plummer Reverend Jonathan Whirley

A Hazard of Hearts (1987) A Hazard of Hearts is a romantic film starring in one of her first major roles. It is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland and was released in 1987. Plot: Compulsive gambler, Sir Giles Staverley is tricked into gambling away his home by his old adversary Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperate, Wrotham gives him one last chance - he will gamble everything Staverley has lost against Staverley's daughter's hand in marriage and her trust fund of 80,000 guineas. Staverley agrees and loses once again, but unable to face his daughter, Serena, he kills himself. Lord Justin Vulcan, a notoriously cool, clear-headed gambler challenges Wrotham for the house and the girl and, much to Wrotham's disgust, wins. Justin now finds himself in possession of the house and Serena, but has no idea of what to do with them. After meeting Serena and realising that she is much younger and more attractive than he had imagined, he installs her as a guest at Mandrake, his family home, despite the opposition of Justin's mother, Lady Harriet Vulcan. As Lady Vulcan attempts to marry Serena off to anyone except her son, Serena and Justin become friends and he teaches her about Mandrake, the home he loves. A crisis forces

Serena and Justin to confront their feelings for each other. Can the course of true love run smoothly for them? Cast Helena Bonham Carter - Serena Staverly Marcus Gilbert - Lord Justin Vulcan Edward Fox - Lord Harry Wrotham - Lady Harriet Vulcan Christopher Plummer - Sir Giles Staverley Stewart Granger - Old Vulcan

The Man Who Planted Trees (1987) Directed by Frédéric Back Produced by Frédéric Back Hubert Tison Written by Jean Giono Jean Roberts Narrated by Philippe Noiret Christopher Plummer Editing by Norbert Pickering Release date(s) May, 1987 Running time 30 minutes Country Canada Language French The Man Who Planted Trees (French: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on the story of the same name by Jean Giono. This 30-minute short film was distributed in two versions - French and English - narrated respectively by noted actors Philippe Noiret and Christopher Plummer, and produced by Radio-Canada. Awards: It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, as well as several other awards that year. It competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1987 .[1] In 1994, it was voted #44 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1987) Animation David the Gnome and Swift the Fox embark on a search to find a gold treasure stolen by trolls. Cast overview: Tom Bosley ... David the Gnome (voice) Christopher Plummer ... Narrator Bob Elliott ... Fred (voice) Ray Goulding ... Ed (voice) Frank Gorshin ... Holler / Carlo / Omar / Prince (voice) ... Gnome King / Ghost of the Black Lake (voice)

Light Years (1988 film) Light Years (Original French: Gandahar) is a 1988 French animated science fiction and fantasy film. The original version was directed by René Laloux, and was based on Jean- Pierre Andrevon's novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar). An English version was directed by and produced by Bob Weinstein, and noted science-fiction author Isaac Asimov made the revision of the translation. The English title is a translation, not of the original title, but of the original tag line "Les Années lumière" ("The Light Years") as seen on the French poster

Shadow Dancing (1988 film) Directed by Lewis Furey Produced by Kay Sumner Written by Christine Foster

Starring Nadine Van der Velde, Christopher Plummer Shadow Dancing Also Known As La bailarina Venezuelais is a 1988 thriller shot in Toronto Canada. Jess is a struggling dancer trying to land a dream role in musical about Medusa. As she practices, the director, who has been haunted for decades by the memory of his former dancer and lover, notices how much she resembles his former lover. The ballerina had died in a bizarre on-stage accident 50 years ago while performing the exact same dance that Jess is doing. As Jesse becomes more obsessed with winning the part she slowly takes on the physical and emotional characteristics of the woman. Eerily, as more unexplainable coincidences continue to surround the production making you wonder if someone or something is behind it all. Cast: Christopher Plummer as Edmund Beaumont James Kee as Paul Gregory Osborne as Philip Crest John Colicos as Anthony Podopolis Charmion King as Grace Meyerhoff Shirley Douglas as Nicole

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone With The Wind is a 1988 documentary outlining the successes and challenges of the casting, filming, and legacy of the 1939 film Gone With The Wind, from concept to finished product. The documentary focuses on David O. Selznick from the time of the book's publication to the Academy Awards ceremony of 1940. Included are interviews with many of the crew and office personnel involved in making the film. Producer David O. Selznick struggled to control his project, working with three directors along the way-- , Victor Fleming and . Each had their own vision and the strong- willed men often clashed. The Making of a Legend brings up many of the "what ifs?" that arose as different scenarios were discussed. Among these were the possibilities of and Gary Cooper as Rhett Butler

Cast: Christopher Plummer ... Narrator (voice) L. Jeffrey Selznick ... David O. Selznick (voice) Arthur E. Arling ... Himself - Camera Operator (as Arthur Arling) Katherine Brown ... Herself - Eastern Story Editor for David O. Selznick (as Kay Brown Barrett) Arthur Fellows ... Himself - Assistant to George Cukor Raymond A. Klune ... Himself - Production Manager in 'Gone with the Wind' (as Ray Klune) Silvia Shulman Lardner ... Herself - Secretary to David O. Selznick James E. Newcom ... Himself - Associate Film Editor in 'Gone with the Wind' (as James Newcom)

I Love N.Y. (1988) Love conquers all. Except for... an angry father, a suspicious mother, a frustrated boss, some dubious friends... and a jealous Siberian Husky. Director: Alan Smithee Writers: Gianni Bozzacchi, Alan Smithee (really Gianni Bozzacchi) Stars:Scott Baio, Christopher Plummer and Kelly Van der Velden

Souvenir (1989 film) Souvenir is a 1989 British drama film directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring Christopher Plummer, and . It was based on the novel The Pork Butcher by David Hughes. Forty years after the Second World War, an ex-German soldier returns as an American to a French village in which atrocities were committed by the Nazis, during which his then French lover was murdered. The film, like the book, is an attempt to attribute and and assuage patent and discreet levels of of guilt.

Cast:

Christopher Plummer ... Ernst Kestner Catherine Hicks ... Tina Boyer Michael Lonsdale ... Xavier Lorion Christopher Cazenove ... William Root Patrick Bailey ... Young kestner Jean Badin ... Henri Boyer Lisa Daniely ... Mme. Lorion Amélie Pick ... Janni

Nabokov on Kafka (TV 1989) , widely considered one of the world's greatest writers for such works as _Lolita_, was also a remarkable professor at . Here, Plummer portrays the witty Nabokov, providing an entertaining and insightful lecture upon "Metamorphosis," Kafka's bizarre story about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a giant bug.

Mindfield [1989]. 1989, Starring Michael Ironside, Lisa Langlois, Christopher Plummer, Stefan Wodoslawsky. Directed by Jean-Claude Lord. In Quebec during the and 1950s, more than 1500 unadopted children living in Catholic were given false medical diagnoses and illegally interned in mental hospitals. Under former Premier , the Quebec government was able to secure major federal funding for their care, and the children were exposed to atrocities including electroshock therapy, excessive medication, and lobotomy experiments. The test subjects have since become known as the Duplessis .

Kingsgate (1989) A story about relationships in the 1980s. Starring: Christopher Plummer, Duncan Fraser, , Roberta Maxwell, Barbara

Where the Heart Is (1990 film) Where the Heart Is is a 1990 romantic comedy film directed by John Boorman, and starring and . Plot summary: Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last building on a lot from being demolished, the Dutch House. When McBain appears on TV to dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish. Returning home, his three college-aged children - Daphne (Uma Thurman), Chloe (Suzy Amis), and Jimmy (David Hewlett) - ridicule him for even thinking to appear on camera. Partly due to the chiding, and partly feeling that they are spoiled and soft, he kicks them out of the house. Giving them each $750 he drops them off at the Dutch House to make their own lives. The house is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. In order to finance their new lives, the three McBain children take on housemates. These include a fashion designer (Crispin Glover) named Lionel; a homeless magician, Shitty (Christopher Plummer); a stockbroker, Tom (Dylan Walsh); and Sheryl, an amateur occultist (Sheila Kelley). Chloe is commissioned to finish a calendar for an insurance company. Lionel has to complete his designs for a fashion show. Chloe uses her roommates in the calendar and Lionel ends up using some of them to model for his show. The story is told against the backdrop of a stockmarket crash which brings McBain to ruin. He desperately attempts to stave off a hostile takeover of his demolition company and fails. He loses his home and becomes destitute. Ultimately, his children take him in and he starts to see the world in an entirely different light. Toward the end, the McBain children, their parents, and friends are all evicted from the house. They hit on the idea of blowing up the building in order to stave off the takeover and return everyone to their previous standard of living. Throughout the film there are numerous romantic miscommunications that are tied together at the end.

A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990) (TV)

Madame Emilie(Sarah Miles) is a courtesan old woman , changing her weary life, she takes her orphaned niece Mistral(Lysette Anthony) from a convent . Both undergo a new life in the cosmopolitan Montecarlo along with the maid(Samantha Eggar). The courtesan becomes the countess of Secret. They are the talk of the high class from Montecarlo. Mistral encounters herself surrounded by suitors, Lord Roberts(Marcus Gilbert)and prince Nicholas, son of the Grand Duke(Christopher Plummer). But some(Gareth Hunt)knows the secrets and threatens to Emilie and an admirer Rajah(Oliver Reed)has less than honorable intentions over Mistral. Meanwhile, the aunt hiding a number of secrets is plotting a long-awaited vengeance in a twisted finale. Naturally ,there's a happy ending like in all stories by Barbara Cartland. This is a romance-drama with tragedy ,murder, passion , love ,twisted plot and incredible ending .It's entertaining film and regency romance fans will appreciate the attention to detail . Based on the romance novel with the same title by Barbara Cartland . In fact, belong to quatrain pictures directed by John Hough , such as: ¨Duel of hearts(Alison Doody,Michael York), ¨Hazard of hearts¨(Helena Bonham Carter,Gilbert),¨and the best, ¨The lady and the highwayman¨(,Lysette Anthony).All realized by the same director,producer(Albert Fennell,Sir Lew Grade), musician(Laurie Johnson: The avengers), author(Cartland) and similar players(Lysette Anthony,Marcus Gilbert,Neal Dickson,Fiona Fullerton,Chrstopher Plummer,among others). This TV picture is well directed by John Hough. He has an eclectic and long filmmaker career , beginning in television series(Avengers,Protectors), making Hammer film(Twins of evil), classic terror(legend of hell house), average horror movies(Howling IV,American Gothic), adventures (Island of treasure,Black arrow)until wholesome Disney family fare(Return and escape to witch mountain). The flick will like to romantic drama buffs.

Red Blooded American Girl (1990) A young woman is transformed into a vampire by a virus. Director: David Blyth Writer: Allan Moyle Stars: Andrew Stevens, Heather Thomas and Christopher Plummer Release Date: 3 January 1997 (South Africa)

Money (1991 film) Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern Produced by André Djaoui, René Malo Written by Larry Pederson, Gordon Roback Starring Eric Stoltz, Christopher Plummer, Maryam d'Abo Money is a 1991 drama film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. Plot: Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz) is a 21-year-old rich kid who goes to claim his inheritance only to find it's been embezzled by his father's former business partners. Traveling the globe in search of the white-collar thieves who have robbed him of millions, Frank locates his father's seriously ill associate Will Scarlet (F. Murray Abraham), who admits to his role in the crime and agrees to help Frank track down the rest of the men on his revenge list.

Madeline (1991) is a children's book series written by , an American author of Belgian, Austrian and German origins.[1] The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film.

In 1991, Cinar produced animated adaptations of the other five Madeline books for The Family Channel, with Christopher Plummer returning as narrator and Marsha Moreau returning to voice Madeline. Each special featured new songs, with lyrics by Judy Rothman and music by Canadian composer Jeffrey Zahn, who replaced the late Joe Raposo. In addition, "I'm Madeline," Madeline's theme song from the original special, was reprised in the

new specials. The specials were released on video first by Hi-Tops Video and second by Golden Book Video.

Counterstrike (1990 TV series) Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis. Nominations: 1992 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role (Christopher Plummer)

Firehead (1991) A government agent assigns a scientist to help one of his agents track down a Russian defector who is a cyborg. Meanwhile, an organization known as The Upper Order is plotting to take over the world by using the cyborg's powers.

Young Catherine (1991) Directed by Michael Anderson Written by Chris Bryant Release date(s) 17 February 1991 Young Catherine is a 1991 American TV miniseries based on the early life of Catherine II of Russia. It stars as Catherine and as Empress Elizabeth. The miniseries is known as Intrigues impériales in France and Die Junge Katharina in Germany. Plot summary: The year is 1744, and a beautiful young girl Catherine II (Julia Ormond) is torn from her homeland to marry the heir to the Russian throne. But his aunt, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia (Vanessa Redgrave) rules the empire with an iron hand, while her nephew Peter III (Reece Dinsdale) proves neither fit for the throne nor the marriage bed. At great risk from enemies who influence her husband and treated as an outsider, Catherine takes a lover and bears his child. Now, with help of her friend Sir Charles Williams, (Christopher Plummer), she must take the throne by forces if she, her young son Paul, and the Russian Empire are to survive. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave ... Empress Elizabeth Christopher Plummer ... Sir Charles Williams Julia Ormond ... Grand Duchess Catherine Franco Nero ... Count Mikhail Vorontsov Marthe Keller ... Princess Johanna Maximilian Schell ... Frederick the Great

A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and (1991) (TV) Director: Writer: Stars:, Michael Allison and Rachel Aviva Release Date:17 July 1991 (USA) In 1991, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the production "A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz," starring Jane Alexander as Georgia O'Keeffe and Christopher Plummer as Alfred Stieglitz. Lifetime Television produced a biopic of Georgia O'Keeffe premiering on September 19, 2009, starring as O’Keeffe, as Alfred Stieglitz, Henry Simmons as Jean Toomer, , Jr. as Stieglitz' brother Lee, and as Mabel Dodge Luhan.[22][23] A new exhibit of O'Keeffe's works at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New which emphasize her lesser-known abstract works is on view from May 2010

Rock-a-Doodle(1991) Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Geoffry Chaucer's Chanticleer and Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest

Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the on 2 August 1991 and in the United States on 3 April 1992. Christopher Plummer as the Grand Duke of Owls, a magical owl who despises Chanticleer. He overhears Edmond's call for Chanticleer in the real world and transforms him into a kitten, planning to eat him. The Duke hates his nephew and threatens several times to kill him if he fails. The Duke is a malevolent and powerful creature of the night with a penchant for eating smaller animals as meals and commanding other villainous owls to do his bidding. He hates sunlight, like all owls, and recoils when light is shined on him. Also, he possesses magical breath that can transform anyone into any creature

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise and is the last of the Star Trek films to include the entire main cast of the 1960s Star Trek television series. It was released in 1991 by . It was directed by and written by Meyer with Denny Martin Flinn. After an ecological disaster leads to two longstanding enemies—the Federation and the Klingon Empire— brokering a tenuous truce, the crew of the USS Enterprise-A must prevent war from breaking out on the eve of universal peace. The main are portrayed by Christopher Plummer as Chang, as Gorkon, and Rosanna DeSoto as Azetbur. Plummer and Shatner had performed together in various acting roles in Montreal.[15] Meyer wrote the role for Plummer, who was initially reluctant to accept it.[6] The role of Gorkon was initially offered to .[4] Warner had appeared in Meyer's first film, the 1979 science-fiction movie Time After Time, and had played a human ambassador in The Final Frontier.[11] The actor's make-up was made to resemble ,[14] as another way of humanizing the otherwise alien Klingon leader.[16] When filming his character's death, a large lamp exploded and rained down in pieces on Warner and Kelley; one heavy piece barely missed striking Warner's head, which Kelley was sure would have killed him.

Berlin Lady (TV mini-series 1991) Boro's adventure begins in Paris in the late twenties. As a minor employee in a photographic agency, he works for a pittance. However, thanks to his , his handsome appearance and his appeal to women, he leads a varied and turbulent life. In spite of his numerous affairs, the great love of his life is his cousin, Maryika, the famous actress from . When Boro learns that Maryika is expected in for the premiere of her latest film, he decides to visit her there. Boro is disappointed in his meeting with Maryika; he has to spend the night alone on the couch.

Christopher Plummer ... Wilhem Speer

The First Circle (1991) The Polish director Aleksander Ford made an English-language film based on the novel in 1973. While it hewed closely to Solzhenitsyn's plot, the film was a critical and commercial failure. The 1991 TV miniseries based on the novel, First Circle, won Canada's Gemini Award for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series, awarded to Ron Orieux. Directed by Larry Sheldon, it received nominations for best dramatic miniseries, best actor, best actress, and best writing in the category. It starred as the protagonist, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell and Dominic Raacke with F. Murray Abraham as Stalin. It was released on DVD. In January 2006, the RTR TV aired the miniseries directed by Gleb Panfilov. Solzhenitsyn helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film

Secrets (1992 film) Secrets, also known as Danielle Steel's Secrets, is a 1992 television film directed by Peter H. Hunt. The film is based upon the 1985 novel of the same name written by Danielle Steel. The drama centers on a television producer and his relationship with the star of his latest TV series. The film focuses on the cast and crew of a new TV series called , which is shot on location in New York City. Mel Wexler is a successful producer who has become a workaholic

since the death of his family in a plane crash. Trying to forget his loss, he throws himself on producing Manhattan. For the lead role, he tries to cast the feared film star Sabina Quarles, who has a reputation of being hard to work with. She initially declines, explaining she is too good for television. However, because of her past with Mel, she finally accepts the role. They soon start a relationship, but he remains suspicious of her constant visits to . She is reluctant to explain why she is going there every month, which makes him think she has an affair. Cast: Christopher Plummer as Mel Wexler as Sabina Quarles Linda Purl as Gary Collins as Zack Taylor Ben Browder as William 'Bill' Warwick Josie Bissett as Gabrielle 'Gaby' Smith Perry as Dan Adams Nicole Eggert as Alexa Adams Brenda Bakke as Sandy Warwick

Impolite (1992) "A thought provoking and stylish mystery, with a refreshing setting! Jack Yeats (Robert Wisden) was once a crack investigative journalist for a newspaper. But a put an end to that. Now, working in a cube farm, Jack has become the lowest form of life on the journalist food chain, he's the obit writer. Working the obituaries can drive a man to drink, but one day Jack receives a package containing half of a recently deceased millionaire's diary. The blood-soaked pages hint at different end than his obituary reported. Curious, and sensing a story that may get him out of his dead end job, Jack goes on a mission to find out more about the case.Full of clever and funny dialougue, Impolite has a plot like Chinatown's and never ceases to draw the audience into the mystery. With a great twist ending, Impolite is impossible not to like!" 1992 was a pivotal year for Plummer; he earned another Genie award nomination, for his supporting role in Impolite.

Malcolm X (1992 film) Malcolm X is a 1992 biographical motion picture about the Muslim-American figure Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little). It was co-written, co-produced, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington as the titular character and co-stars , Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr., and . , , , attorney William Kunstler,, Christopher Plummer, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale. The Rev. and future South Africa president Nelson Mandela are among the cameo appearances. Spike Lee has a small role as Shorty, a character based partially on a real-life acquaintance, Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, a fellow criminal and jazz trumpeter. The film dramatizes key events in Malcolm X's life: his criminal career, his incarceration, his conversion to Islam, his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and later falling out with the organization, his marriage to Betty X, his pilgrimage to Mecca and reevaluation of his views concerning whites, and his assassination on February 21, 1965. Defining childhood incidents, including his father's death, his mother's mental illness, and his experiences with racism, are dramatized in flashbacks. Cast: Denzel Washington as Malcolm X Angela Bassett as Betty X Albert Hall as Baines Al Freeman, Jr. as Elijah Muhammad Delroy Lindo as West Indian Archie Spike Lee as Shorty Christopher Plummer as Chaplain Gill

Malcolm X was released in North America on November 18, 1992. The film was critically well- received, garnering 90% on movie review aggregator . Denzel Washington's portrayal of Malcolm X was widely praised and he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor. Washington lost to Al Pacino, a decision which Lee criticized, saying "I'm not the

only one who thinks Denzel was robbed on that one.] The movie received a number of awards at other festivals.

Liar's Edge (1992) A child is traumatized when his father, a stuntman, dies in an attempt to go over Niagara Falls. Later, his mother meets and marries a truck driver, and things seem to be going OK. Then the new husband's creepy brother shows up, and the boy begins to get a sense that neither of the brothers is quite what they claim to be. Cast: Cast overview, first billed only: Nicholas Shields ... Mark Burnz (as Nick Shields) Shannon Tweed ... Heather Burnz David Keith ... Gary Kirkpatrick ... Dave Kirkpatrick Christopher Plummer ... Harry Weldon

A Stranger in the Mirror (TV 1993) Perry King Toby Temple Lori Loughlin Jill Castle Geordie Johnson David Kenyon Alice Tanner Christopher Plummer Clifton Lawrence

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree (TV 1990) Cast: Christopher Plummer ... Narrator (voice)

Madeline (1993) In 1993, DIC produced a Madeline cartoon series, which also aired on the Family Channel. An total of twenty episodes were produced for the first series[15]. Christopher Plummer reprised his role as narrator again[17], and "I'm Madeline" was used as the series' theme song. The series was later rerun on the Disney Channel and Toon Disney in the U.S. Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance (Christopher Plummer)

Wolf (1994 film) Wolf is a 1994 American horror film directed by and written by , , and an uncredited , with music by and cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno. The film featured and in the lead roles, alongside , , , Christopher Plummer, , , and Om Puri. Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is bitten by a wolf while driving home in Vermont. Afterwards, he is demoted from editor in chief of a publishing house when it is taken over by tycoon Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer), who replaces him with Will's protegé Stewart Swinton (James Spader). Stewart is having an affair with Will's wife Charlotte (Kate Nelligan). Will starts to be more aggressive, taking on the characteristics of a wolf. With the help of Alden's headstrong daughter Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer), Will sets out for his new life. His first escapade as a werewolf takes place at Laura's estate, where he wakes up at night and hunts down a deer. In the morning Will finds himself on the bank of a stream, with blood all over his face and hands.

Awards and nominations: Wolf won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick's screenplay, and was nominated for a further five , in the categories of Best Horror Film, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Michelle Pfeiffer), Best Supporting Actor (James Spader) and Best Make-up (Rick Baker).

Ennio Morricone was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or Television.

Crackerjack (1994 film) Crackerjack is a 1994 adventure film directed by Michael Mazo and starring Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski and Christopher Plummer. A lone cop is the only hope for a ski resort held hostage by a white supremacist jewel thief in this action thriller. Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith ... Jack Wild Nastassja Kinski ... Katia 'K.C.' Koslovska Christopher Plummer ... Ivan Getz

Dolores Claiborne (1995 film) Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 film based on the eponymous novel by , starring Bates, Christopher Plummer and . It was directed by . As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne (Bates), a middle-aged domestic servant in a coastal town in Maine, is heard having an argument with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt), after which Vera falls down the stairs. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill Vera. Vera dies and Dolores is charged with her murder. Dolores' daughter, Selena St. George (Leigh), a journalist, arrives in town to support her mother. Dolores insists that she did not kill her wealthy employer, but she finds little sympathy, as the entire town believes she murdered her husband, Joe St. George (David Straithairn) almost 20 years earlier. Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer), the chief detective in her husband's murder case, is determined to put Dolores away for life. Cast: Dolores Claiborne Jennifer Jason Leigh Selena St. George Judy Parfitt Vera Donovan Christopher Plummer Detective John Mackey

Harrison Bergeron (1995 film) Harrison Bergeron is a 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story of the same name. It was produced for Showtime, and first screened on August 13, 1995. The film takes place in a dystopian future in which the US government mandates total egalitarianism in all things, by having everyone attach wearable mind "handicapping" devices to their heads and showing only mind numbing shows on TV. The story centers on a high school student named Harrison Bergeron whose extreme intelligence makes him something of a pariah. He is ultimately recruited by a secret organization whose purpose is to operate the functions of society that cannot be handled by the unintelligent. While he thrives in this environment for a time and even meets a girlfriend there, he ultimately pays a personal price and comes to see the true social structure as unethical and immoral, and thus rebels - even if it means making a sacrifice. Cast: Sean Astin ... Harrison Bergeron Miranda de Pencier ... Phillipa ... President McCloskey Howie Mandel ... Charlie (of 'Chat with Charlie') Andrea Martin ... Diana Moon Glampers Christopher Plummer ... John Klaxon: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series: Christopher Plummer

12 Monkeys (1995) 12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée, and starring , , , and Christopher Plummer. James Cole (Bruce Willis) is a convicted criminal living in a grim post-apocalyptic future. In 1996–1997, the Earth's surface was contaminated by a virus so deadly that it forced the surviving population to live underground. To earn a pardon, Cole allows scientists to send him on dangerous missions to the past to collect information on the virus, thought to be released by a terrorist organization known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. If possible, he is to

obtain a pure sample of the original virus so a cure can be made. Throughout the film, Cole is troubled with recurring dreams involving a chase and a shooting in an airport. After Universal Studios acquired the rights to remake La Jetée as a full-length film, David and Janet Peoples were hired to write the script. Under Terry Gilliam's direction, Universal granted the filmmakers a $29.5 million budget, and filming lasted from February to May 1995. The film was shot mostly in and Baltimore, where the story was set. The film was released to critical praise and grossed approximately $168 million worldwide. Brad Pitt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won a Golden Globe for his performance. The film also won and was nominated for various categories at the Saturn Awards Bruce Willis as James Cole Madeleine Stowe as Kathryn Railly Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines Christopher Plummer as Dr. Goines

We the Jury (1996) (TV) Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. Christopher Plummer ... Wilfred Fransiscus

Skeletons (1996)

We the Jury (1996) (TV) A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. ... Christopher Plummer …..R. Carlyle

The Conspiracy of Fear (TV 1996) When Chris King's father dies, he is devastated. However, when a bunch of assorted heavies start threatening him over a mysterious package his father may or may not have left him, grief is the least of his worries. Cast overview, first billed only: ... Timothy Straker Leslie Hope ... Jamimah 'Jimmy' Camely Andrew Lowery ... Chris King Kenneth Walsh ... Capt. Alex Rose Christopher Plummer ... Joseph Wakeman

The Arrow (1997) The Arrow is a four-hour miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader during World War II and president of A. V. Roe Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor. The film also stars Michael Ironside and Sara Botsford. The mini-series is noted as the highest viewership ever for a CBC program. Christopher Plummer. . . . . George Hees Other significant individuals in the program, portrayed in the series, include RCAF pilot Flight Lieutenant Jack Woodman (Ron White) who conducted test flights on Avro aircraft but was supplanted by Janusz Żurakowski (Lubomir Mykytiuk) for the first few flights; Jim Chamberlin (Aidan Devine) and James Floyd (Nigel Bennett) in the design team; Edward Critchley (Ian D. Clark) who would be asked to develop an engine for the Arrow when other models became unavailable. The film also boasted cameos by as U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Ironside as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Christopher Plummer as George Hees.

Awards: Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards in 1997

Rene Ohashi won Best Cinematography in TV Drama

Babes in Toyland (1997 film) Babes in Toyland is a 1997 animated musical adventure based on the original story. Everyone's favorite nursery rhyme characters come magically and musically to life in this animated adventure based on the classic holiday tale. Cast: Joseph Ashton as Jack (voice) Lacey Chabert as Jill (voice) as Tom Piper (voice) Cathy Cavadini as Mary Lamb (voice) Christopher Plummer as Barnaby Crookedman (voice) 1998 Nominated Annie Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production Christopher Plummer For playing "Barnaby Crooked Man".

Winchell (1998 film) The two-hour biography speeds along from young Walter's hustling beginnings as a tabloid gossip merchant (I'm not writing for the major leagues, he announces. I'm writing for the minor leagues.) to his ascendance as the nation's most powerful propagandist. Won Golden Globe. Cast overview, first billed only: ... Walter Winchell ... Wayne ... Herman Kurfeld Christopher Plummer ... Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hidden Agenda (1999) A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, and murder at the highest levels. In this supercharged political thriller, David McLean becomes the center of a deadly conspiracy when he discovers a computer disc his recently killed CIA agent brother, Mike, left behind. After the government denies involvement in Mike's "accidental" death, David must hunt for the truth on his own...and with double crossings, high-octane chase scenes and thrill- a-minute plot twists, nowhere-and no one-is safe! Christopher Plummer ... Ulrich Steiner

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1998) Christopher Plummer. . . . narrator

Blackheart (1998) Ray and Annette are a couple who scam, and seduce to get wealth from unspecting wealthy people. Director: Dominic Shiach Writers: Brad Simpson, Brock Simpson Stars:Richard Grieco, Christopher Plummer and Fiona Loewi

The Clown at Midnight (1998) is a horror film. Years ago, opera singer Lorraine Sedgewick was killed in her dressing room at an opera house, supposedly by Lorenzo Orsini, one of the lead actors in a performance of Pagliacci. When Orsini was thought to have fled to Europe afterwards, the opera house closed down. Years later, a group of high school teenagers come to restore the old building for their school's theatre department. One of the teens is Lorraine's daughter Kate. She was adopted shortly after her mother's murder and only learned about her parentage six months ago, and has been plagued by visions and nightmares about the murder ever since. She was convinced by her friend Monica to help restore the opera house as a means of getting over her problems.

When the group visits the crime scene, they discover a still-wet patch of blood, and Kate finds that her visions of her mother's murder are starting to get stronger and more realistic. Thereafter, the titular clown, never having left the opera house, begins the bloody decimation of the group. Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house. Director: Jean Pellerin Writer: Kenneth J. Hall Stars: Christopher Plummer, and Sarah Lassez

Celebrate the Century (1999), Episode 1: 1900-1914 Produced in Burbank and Atlanta by David L. Wolper Prods. in association with CNN Prods. Series producers, David L. Wolper, Robert Guenette; executive producer for CNN Prods., Pat Mitchell; line producer, Robert Leeburg; director, Guenette; writer, Guenette. Narrator: Christopher Plummer. Special appearance: Wynton Marsalis

Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999) Madeline: Lost in Paris is an animated Madeline television film, produced by DIC Entertainment and released on Direct-to-video on 3 August 1999. It was released to VHS by Studios Home Entertainment. In 2009 the film was released on iTunes for the film's 10th anniversary. Voice Cast: Christopher Plummer ... Narrator

The Insider (1999 film) The Insider is a 1999 film that tells the controversial true story of a 60 Minutes television series segment, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The 60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because CBS’ then- owner, Laurence Tisch, objected. The story was later aired on February 4, 1996. The film stars Al Pacino (Lowell Bergman), Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand), Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace), Bruce McGill (attorney Ron Motley), Diane Venora, , Philip Baker Hall (Don Hewitt), Lindsay Crouse, Gina Gershon, Debi Mazar, Rip Torn, and . The movie was adapted by and Michael Mann from the Vanity Fair magazine article “The Man Who Knew Too Much” by Marie Brenner. It was directed by Mann. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Russell Crowe), Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Writing,

Nuremberg (2000 film) Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian/United States television docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials. Written by David W. Rintels Directed by Yves Simoneau Starring Christopher Plummer Jill Hennessy Matt Craven Colm Feore Christopher Heyerdahl

The Dinosaur Hunter (TV 2000) A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils. Christopher Plummer ... Hump Hinton Burbank International Children's Film Festival 2000 Won Film Award Best Child Actress Performance Alison Pill Best Tele-Drama Rick Stevenson Hollywood Film Festival 2000 Nominated Hollywood Discovery Award Best Feature Film Rick Stevenson

Possessed (2000 film) Possessed is the name of a 2000 Showtime original movie starring Timothy Dalton, based on events appearing in the book Possessed by Thomas B. Allen, which is inspired by the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim; The film was released on DVD in the USA on October 2, 2001. Cast: Timothy Dalton – Fr. Willam Bowdern Henry Czerny – Fr. Raymond McBride Jonathan Malen – Robbie Mannheim Michael Rhoades – Karl Mannheim Shannon Lawson – Phyllis Mannheim Christopher Plummer – Archbishop Hume Piper Laurie – Aunt Hanna Richard Waugh – Reverend Eckhardt Michael McLachlan – Father Walter Halloran

American Tragedy (2000 film) American Tragedy is a 2000 biographical television movie based on the true story of O.J. Simpson's (Raymond Forchion) trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman in 1994. starred as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran. Awards and nominations: Art Directors Guild (ADG) Miniseries or Television Film (lost to The '70s) Casting Society of America (CSA) Best Casting - Miniseries (lost to Life with : Me and My Shadows) Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (Plummer – lost to Robert Downey, Jr., Ally McBeal) Satellite Awards Best Miniseries (won)

Dracula 2000 Dracula 2000, also known internationally as Dracula 2001[2], is a 2000 horror film written and directed by Patrick Lussier. The film stars , Christopher Plummer, , Justine Waddell, Omar Epps, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jeri Ryan, and Jennifer Esposito. Matthew Van Helsing (Plummer), the alleged descendant of the famed 19th century Dutch medical doctor, Abraham Van Helsing, owns an antique shop in early 21st century London. One night with Van Helsing upstairs, his secretary, Solina (Esposito), allows a group of thieves, led by her boyfriend, Marcus (Omar Epps), into the shop. The thieves infiltrate the shop's underground high-security vault and find a sealed silver coffin protected by a deadly defense system. Based on the level of security surrounding the coffin, Solina and Marcus decide that the coffin’s contents must be valuable, so they escape with it and flee to New Orleans, Louisiana. When Van Helsing discovers that the coffin has been stolen, he boards a plane to America, telling his apprentice, Simon Sheppard (Miller), to remain in London. Simon does not follow his mentor’s orders and travels to Louisiana as well.

Star Trek: Klingon Academy (2000) Star Trek: Klingon Academy, also known as Klingon Academy, is a starship combat space flight simulator computer game developed by 14 Degrees East, an internal development house of publisher Interplay Entertainment. The game follows a young Klingon warrior named Torlek as he attends the Elite Command Academy, a war college created by General Chang to prepare warriors for a future conflict with the United Federation of Planets. Christopher Plummer and David Warner reprised their respective roles as Chang and Gorkon for the production of Klingon Academy.

On Golden Pond (2001 live TV production) is a play by . The plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond.

During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiancé and his son in tow. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage. In 2001, CBS aired a live television adaptation of the play that was heavily publicized in the press due to the reunion of former Sound of Music stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the lead roles. It also starred Glenne Headly.

Lucky Break 2001 Lucky Break is a 2001 British comedy film starring James Nesbitt and directed by Peter Cattaneo. Feelgood prison-escape movie that sees a group of prison inmates (including James Nesbitt and ), put on a theatrical show of Nelson: The Musical to cover their daring break-out attempt. collaborated with Stephen Fry to write and produce songs for the send-up musical "Nelson". Christopher Plummer as Graham Mortimer

A Beautiful Mind (2001 film) A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by . It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with , , Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany. The story begins in the early years of a young schizophrenic prodigy named John Nash. Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends. Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, Nash's doctor at a psychiatric hospital Screen Actors Guild Awards:2002 Nominated: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture Paul Bettany Jennifer Connelly Russell Crowe Adam Goldberg Ed Harris Josh Lucas Christopher Plummer Anthony Rapp Jason Gray-Stanford

Full Disclosure (2001 film) Full Disclosure is a 2001 thriller film starring Fred Ward, Christopher Plummer, Rachel Ticotin and Penelope Ann Miller. It was directed by John Bradshaw. film was shot in 1999. The release was delayed to distributing problems. Full Disclosure was nominated for 7 Video Premiere Awards in 2001: Best Actor (Ward), Best Supporting Actor (Plummer), Best Supporting Actress (Miller), Best Original Score, Best Live- Action Premiere, Best Screenplay and Best Director. The film was released in USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Finland, China, France, Spain, Italy, Norway and in Greece (in 2008). The canadian working title was "All The Fine Lines".

Night Flight (TV 2002) This story concerns a team of World War 2 aircraft crew coming to terms with their past in the twenty first century. There have been occasions in other movies, where an actor's poor performance have been saved by clever editing and production. This movie is exactly the opposite, the muddled and confusing production has been saved by a brilliant cast. Who have on their own performances produced a first class 'weepie' Cast overview, first billed only: Christopher Plummer ... 'Flash' Harry Peters

Edward Woodward ... Vic Green ... Ted Atwell Barbara Flynn ... Moira

Ararat (2002 film) Ararat is a 2002 film directed, written, and co-produced by Atom Egoyan based loosely on the Siege of Van during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is denied by the government of Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the nature of truth and its representation through art. Ararat stars , Christopher Plummer, and David Alpay. Cast: David Alpay as Raffi Charles Aznavour as Edward Saroyan Eric Bogosian as Rouben Christopher Plummer as David Marie-Josée Croze as Celia

Agent of Influence (TV 2002) This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by . Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat... Director: Michel Poulette Writers: Ian Adams, Riley Adams, and 1 more credit » Stars:Christopher Plummer, Marina Orsini and Ted Whittal

Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 comedy-drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. The screenplay is based on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by , which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September 1839. Principal cast Charlie Hunnam ..... Nicholas Nickleby ..... Smike Christopher Plummer ..... Ralph Nickleby ..... Madeline Bray Tom Courtenay ..... Newman Noggs ..... Wackford Squeers The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. It received the National Board of Review Award for Best Cast, and Romola Garai was nominated for the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best European Actress at the European Film Awards

Blizzard (2003 film) Blizzard is a 2003 Christmas family film directed by . It stars , Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollack, and . A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer. The film won the Best of the Fest award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and the DGC Team Award from the Director's Guild of Canada. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2003.

The Gospel of John (2003 film) The Gospel of John is a 2003 film that is the story of Jesus' life as recounted by the Gospel of John. It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis from the American Society's Good News Bible. This three-hour epic feature film follows John's Gospel precisely, without additions to the story from other Gospels, nor omission of complex passages. This film was created by a constituency of artists from Canada and the United Kingdom, along with academic and theological consultants from around the world. The cast was selected primarily from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Soulpepper Theatre Company, as well as Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company and . The musical score, composed by Jeff Danna and created for the film, is partially based on the music of the

Biblical period. The film was produced by Visual Bible International.The film is narrated by Christopher Plummer and stars Scottish-Peruvian actor Henry Ian Cusick as Jesus. Others cast include British actors Stuart Bunce (John), Richard Lintern (Leading Pharisee) Scott Handy (John the Baptist), Lynsey Baxter (Mary Magdalene), and Canadian actors Diego Matamoros (Nicodemus), Stephen Russell (), Daniel Kash (Simon Peter), Cedric Smith (Caiaphas) and Nancy Palk (Samaritan Woman).

Cold Creek Manor (2003) Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American/Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies focuses on a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. When documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson and his business executive wife Leah decide life in New York City has become more than they can bear, they and their children Kristen and Jesse move into a decaying mansion filled with the possessions of the previous family. They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter Stephanie, who help them purchase a horse. As Cooper begins to sort through the many documents and family photographs scattered throughout the house, he decides to commit its history to film.

Cast: Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson as Dale Massie Juliette Lewis as Ruby Ferguson Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie

National Treasure (2004 film) National Treasure is a 2004 adventure film from the Walt Disney Studios under Walt Disney Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, , Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is the first film in the National Treasure franchise and stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, , , and Christopher Plummer. Cage plays Benjamin Gates, an historian and amateur cryptologist searching for a lost treasure, once protected by the Knights Templar and hidden by the Freemasons during the early years of the United States. A coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence points to the location of the "national treasure", but Gates isn't alone in his quest. Whoever can steal the Declaration and decode it first, will find the greatest treasure in history.

Alexander (2004 film) Alexander is a 2004 epic film based on the life of Alexander the Great. It is not a remake of the 1956 film which starred Richard Burton. It was directed by Oliver Stone, with Colin Farrell in the title role. The film is based mostly on the book Alexander the Great, written in the 1970s by historian Robin Lane Fox, who gave up his screen credit in return for being allowed to take part in the epic cavalry charge during the film's recreation of the Battle of Gaugamela. Christopher Plummer ... Aristotle

Our Fathers (2005 film) Our Fathers is a 2005 television film directed by and starring , Christopher Plummer, and . The screenplay was written by Thomas Michael Donnelly, based on a book of David France. Christopher Plummer as Cardinal Bernard Law. A dramatized account of the hidden and scandal that shook the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the characters, events, and policies that brought the abuse and scandal into existence. Awards and nominations: Emmy Awards: Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Dennehy – lost to Paul Newman, ) Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Plummer – lost to Paul Newman, Empire Falls) Satellite Awards

Outstanding Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Danson – lost to , Elvis) Outstanding Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (Dennehy – lost to , Elvis) Outstanding Television Film (lost to Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical) Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Outstanding Male Actor - Miniseries or Television Film (Plummer – lost to Paul Newman, Empire Falls) Writers Guild of America (WGA) Best Writing, Long Form - Adapted (Donnelly – lost to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers)

Must Love Dogs (2005) Must Love Dogs is a 2005 romantic comedy film based on the book written by Claire Cook. It is the third film directed and written by . The film, starring Diane Lane and , was produced on a budget of $30 million. The film focuses on a woman's struggle with divorce and meeting new people afterward. Production started on October 12, 2004 and the film was released on July 29, 2005. Critic's opinions were mostly negative giving the general opinion that the actors were not to blame. Must Love Dogs took the fifth spot on its opening weekend and has grossed more than $58 million worldwide. The film was released on VHS and DVD on December 20, 2005. Christopher Plummer as Bill Nolan.

"BROWN PENNY" by William Butler Yeats

"Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair." I WHISPERED, "I am too young," And then, "I am old enough;" Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. "Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair." Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

Syriana (2005) Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by , and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil. The film focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political, economic, legal, and social effects are experienced by a Central Intelligence Agency operative (George Clooney), an energy analyst (), a Washington attorney (), and a young unemployed Pakistani migrant worker (Mazhar Munir) in an Arab country in the Persian Gulf. The film also features an extensive supporting cast including , Tim Blake Nelson, and Christopher Plummer, as well as Academy Award winners and William Hurt. Christopher Plummer as Dean Whiting, managing partner of Sloan Whiting law firm. Member of the Committee to Liberate Iran (CLI). Employer of Sydney Hewitt and Bennett Holiday.

The New World (2005 film)

The New World is a 2005 drama/romance film written and directed by Terrence Malick, a historical adventure depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith and Pocahontas. It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick. The cast includes Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, , , , , and Yorick van Wageningen. The production team includes director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, production designer Jack Fisk, costume designer Jacqueline West, and film editor Richard Chew. The film had an estimated budget of $30 million and was produced by Sarah Green. The film received numerous awards and nominations for its cinematography, score, Kilcher's performance, and for overall production. Christopher Plummer as Captain Christopher Newport

Inside Man (2006) Inside Man is a 2006 crime-drama film directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. The film's screenplay was written by Russell Gewirtz and produced by . It was released in North America and several European markets on March 23 and 24, 2006. The film was shot on location in New York City and features an expansive and diverse ensemble cast. In addition to being a cerebral crime thriller, the film handles issues of good and evil in unexpected sources, corruption, prejudice, multiculturalism in United States (and New York City in particular) post-September 11, 2001, and leaves several interpretations of right and wrong open to the audience. The title comes from several meanings of the term "inside man" and therefore is a use of word play Christopher Plummer ... Arthur Case.

The Lake House (2006 film) The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama film remake of the Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000). It was written by David Auburn, directed by Alejandro Agresti, and stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as Alex Wyler and Kate Forster, respectively an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two meet via letters left in a mailbox at the lake house they have both lived in at separate points in time; they carry on correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years. For Alex the time goes from 2004 to 2006. For Kate the time goes from 2006 to 2008. Christopher Plummer as Simon J. Wyler A lonely once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

Man in the Chair (2007) Man in the Chair is a 2007 independent film written and directed by Michael Schroeder. The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, and Robert Wagner.The drama stars Christopher Plummer as Flash, a man who longs for the days when he worked as a crew member on such cinematic masterpieces as . When Flash meets teenage film fanatic Cameron Kincaid (played by Michael Angarano), he becomes an unlikely mentor and agrees to help Cameron make a film to compete in a student competition where the top prize is a film school scholarship and, for Cameron, a ticket out of his difficult home life. Flash, who sees his own life drawing to a close recruits the support of his eccentric friends at the Motion Picture home and helps Cameron make his film and chase his dream. Cast: Christopher Plummer as Flash Madden Michael Angarano as Cameron Kincaid M. Emmet Walsh as Mickey Hopkins Robert Wagner as Taylor Moss

Closing the Ring (2007) Closing the Ring is a film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, , Stephen Amell, , Pete Postlethwaite, and .

The film opens in 1991, with the funeral of a World War II veteran. The man's daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her father, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend Jack (Christopher Plummer) seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life. The film was released in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on December 28, 2007.

Emotional Arithmetic (2008) (2008) is a Canadian/American drama directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by , about the emotional consequences for three survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars , , Christopher Plummer, , and Max von Sydow. It opened at the Toronto Film Festival, in Toronto, Canada, on September 15, 2007, and was released, in Canada, on April 18, 2008. When released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the US, on July 22, 2008, the film's title differed from that of its theatrical release; the US DVD is called Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning Emotional Arithmetic focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie (Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. Decades after their release from Drancy, their emotional wounds still affect their lives in different ways when they meet again. Now in her 50s, Melanie is stressfully married to David Winters (Plummer), a cold and grouchy older professor of history, who was once her teacher and who has been unfaithful to her with other students after their marriage (Marchand). A now-elderly poet, Jakob, having survived the gulag, has recently been released from a Russian psychiatric hospital (Foundas, Marchand, Stone). Now an entomologist living in Paris, Christopher is "a non-Jewish Irishman who had been interred at Drancy by mistake and whose boyhood infatuation with Melanie has been little dulled by the passing decades" (Foundas). The three are reunited at a farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where Melanie and David live with their grown son, Benjamin (Dupuis), a gourmet cook, who prepares a "life- changing" meal served outside, at a table set up under a tree (Foundas, Marchand, Rocchi, Stone). Nominated — Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Already Dead (2008) Already Dead is a 2008 drama film starring Ron Eldard and Christopher Plummer. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California. Plot: Thomas Archer's (Ron Eldard) life changes due to a horrific attack, he is miserable and lost in life. But when his Doctor (Christopher Plummer) makes an offer to get the revenge Archer needs, everything goes wrong and people start dying. Cast: Ron Eldard ... Thomas Archer Til Schweiger ... The Man Patrick Kilpatrick ... The Detective Geoff Pierson ... Pierce Marisa Coughlan ... Sarah Archer Christopher Plummer ... Dr. Heller

The Summit (TV mini-series 2008) Set on the eve of the next G8 Summit, this miniseries follows a mother's desperate struggle to bring justice to her murdered son, fallen victim to a corrupt pharmaceutical company.

Caesar and Cleopatra (2009) Shaw's legendary wit turns political drama into sparkling comedy when veteran strategist becomes mentor to the enchanting teenage queen of Roman-occupied Egypt. Their first encounter under a desert moon will lead to a shift in the course of history, as

Cleopatra gradually overcomes her timidity to become a determined player in the game of power politics Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2008 production of Caesar and Cleopatra comes to the big screen

Up (2009 film) Up is a 2009 computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first animated and 3D film to do so. Up is director Pete Docter's second feature-length film, after Monsters, Inc., and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai. It is Pixar's tenth feature film and the studio's first to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D, and is accompanied in theaters by the short film Partly Cloudy

My Dog Tulip (2009) My Dog Tulip is an American independent animated feature film directed and animated by Paul Fierlinger. His wife, Sandra Fierlinger, painted the backgrounds and characters. It is based on the 1956 book by J. R. Ackerley, which tells the story of his relationship with his German Shepherd Dog. Somewhat unusually for animated features, the film is geared toward the "adult sensibility" rather than children. Its public premiere was at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 10, 2009. The film was made in TVPaint. The film was awarded Honourable Mention for Best Animated Film at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival. In July 2010, distribution rights were acquired by New Yorker Films. It also serves as the final film appearance of , who passed away on May 2nd, 2010.

9 (2009 film) 9 is a 2009 American computer-animated science fantasy film directed by Shane Acker and produced by and Timur Bekmambetov. The film stars , John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, and Christopher Plummer. It is based on Acker's Academy Award-nominated 2005 short film of the same name. The screenplay for the film was written by Pamela Pettler, with casting by Mindy Marin, production design by Robert St. Pierre and Fred Warter, and art direction by Christophe Vacher. A rag doll that awakens in a post-apocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows a traveling theater troupe whose leader, having made a bet with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations and face them with a choice between good and evil. , Christopher Plummer, , and Tom Waits star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended. Ledger's role was recast with , , and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger's character as he travels through a dream world. The film made its world premiere during the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. The UK release of the film was scheduled for 6 June 2009 but pushed back to 16 October 2009 due to its successful premiere at Cannes. The film was given a limited release in the US on Christmas Day 2009 and a nationwide expansion on 8 January 2010. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was nominated for two Academy Awards in the categories Best Art Direction (art directed by Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro, and set decorated by Caroline Smith; lost to Avatar) and Best Costume Design (costumes designed by Monique Prudhomme; lost to The Young Victoria)

The Last Station (2009) The Last Station is a 2009 biopic about Count Leo Tolstoy, based on a 1990 biographical novel of the same name by . It stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Dame

Helen Mirren as his wife Sophia Tolstaya. The film premiered at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival. 1910, the last year of the long life of internationally celebrated writer and philosopher Count Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), turbulence mounts as the Count's devoted and idealistic disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), maneuver against his more practical and family-oriented wife (Helen Mirren). The main setting is the Count's country estate of Yasnaya Polyana. The Count and Countess have a long-standing and loving marriage, but his idealistic and spiritual side (he is opposed on principle, for example, to private property) is at odds with her more aristocratic and conventionally religious views. Contention focuses on a new will that the "Tolstoians" are attempting to persuade the Count to authorize. It will negate all of his copyrights and put his writings into the public domain, potentially leaving his family without adequate support after his death. The maneuvering is seen through the eyes of a brand new secretary to the great man (James McAvoy) who finds himself having to mediate between the two sides. He takes time out for an intense love affair with one of the Count's less content followers, Masha (). In the end, the Count reluctantly signs the new will and leaves Sophia and their home to travel to an undisclosed location where he can continue his work undisturbed. She unsuccessfully attempts suicide. During the journey, however, he falls ill. The film ends with his death near the Astapovo train station where the Countess is allowed (barely) by his followers to see him one last time. Awards: Helen Mirren won the Best Actress award at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival for her performance. Mirren was also nominated for Best Actress - Drama at the 67th Golden Globe Awards as was Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. On December 17, it was announced that Mirren and Plummer had both received nominations for their performances from the Screen Actors Guild. Mirren and Plummer were also nominated for Academy Awards for their respective roles, but did not win.

Beginners (2010) Beginners is a 2010 film written and directed by . It tells the story of Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a man trying to deal with two stunning revelations from his 75 year-old father Hal (Christopher Plummer): that Hal is gay and that he is gravely ill. The film is based on the true- life coming out of Mills' father at the age of 75, five years before his death. When Oliver's (Ewan McGregor) father Hal Fields (Christopher Plummer) loses his wife in his seventies, he announces to his son that he is gay and now "wants to explore the other side." Four years later Hal dies of cancer, leaving 38 year old Oliver to struggle with loneliness and a life informed by the unreliability of love. As he continues to mourn and remember both his parents Oliver meets Anna (Melanie Laurent) - an exciting and captivating French woman - who inspires Oliver to move past the limits of the relationships he has known to a more surprising, more frightening, and finally more intimate love. Beginners premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, where The heralded it as a "heady, heartfelt film" with a cast who has "a strong sense of responsibility to their real-world counterparts". Beginners won the 2011 Gotham Award for Best Feature, shared with The Tree of Life. Christopher Plummer won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture 2012, and the Denver Film Critics Society Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the National Board of Review Award and the Online Film Critics Award, all for Best Supporting Actor. The film is nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Plummer) and is also nominated for Spirit Awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Male. On Sunday, January 15th, 2012 Christopher Plummer won a Golden Globe for his role as supporting actor. On January 24, 2012, Christopher Plummer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Priest (2011 film) Priest is a 2011 American supernatural starring Paul Bettany as the title character. The film, directed by Scott Stewart, is based on the Korean comic of the same name. In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. Christopher Plummer as Monsignor Orelas.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an upcoming American film adaptation of the novel of the same name (orig. Män som hatar kvinnor) by the late Swedish author/journalist , the first book in his Millennium Trilogy, directed by . Cast: as Lisbeth Salander as Mikael Blomkvist Robin Wright as Erika Berger Stellan Skarsgård as Martin Vanger Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger

Barrymore (the movie 2011) Based on the play by , Barrymore stars Christopher Plummer as actor John Barrymore rehearsing for a revival of his Richard III Broadway production. Plummer actually played the role on Broadway and at the Stratford Festival of Canada back in the mid-1990s and in 1997 won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. The film was written and directed by Erik Canuel and according to the trade it could be a significant player in this year's Oscar season. The film will be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. A film version of Christopher Plummer in Barrymore will be featured at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival, with Plummer on tap to discuss the reprise of his 1997 Tony-winning performance as John Barrymore. Director Eric Canuel captured Plummer in March 2011 during a limited run of William Luce’s drama at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. The revival reunited the star with director ; John Plumpis played Frank, Barrymore’s unseen prompter/stage manager. Plummer portrayed Barrymore at the end of life as a talented but dissolute member of the famous American acting dynasty. The film version of Barrymore was shot with multiple high- definition cameras and will be released on HBO Canada, Movie Central and the Movie Network.

Five Good Years (2011 Drama) (not yet released) Young Kentucky coal miner forced into boxing ring to save critically ill mother in fact-based story. Storyline: A young West Virginia coal miner becomes a human punching bag to raise extra money for his gravely ill mother. When Alex Winton's family situation worsens, he gets up from the mat and goes "pro" boxer, fighting not for just a shot at the big time, but to save a life. His plight is taken on by a young cable news reporter, whereas her growing love for him and his selfless courage inspire her "boy" to emerge as America's favorite son.Written by Bruce Reisman Director: Bruce Reisman, Writers: Bruce Reisman, Kris Black Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Christopher Plummer as Seamus (rumored) and Taryn Manning Filming Locations: West Virginia, USA Five Good Years (2011) ... Production Company Four Legged Pictures [us]

Filming:

2014 Hector and the Search for Happiness A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.

2013 Elsa and Fred "Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true.

2012 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight Ali's biggest match, his fight with the US government. A film about the politics and hubris surrounding the and the revenge exacted on America's greatest sportsman of the 20th century because he refused to fight in that war.

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Theatre

Christopher Plummer in Theatre

"The theatre has given me the most joy professionally, because of the live audience. I think it's desperately important to form a communion with your audience. That's your partner. Though I admire and take pleasure in movies, they can't replace the stage. Because it's our medium, the actors' and writers'

"The theater is the highest point of art for us, the actor, because it encompasses our whole bodies, our feet, our voice, everything we have as equipment is necessary on the stage"

"The theater is not for sissies. It seperates the men from the boys"

Christopher Plummer, born in Toronto, Canada in 1929, was on course to become a concert pianist until, during his teens, he fell in love with the theatre and acting took the place of music as his great passion. Plummer rose through the ranks as a stage actor in the 1950s, and broke into movies in 1958, when Sidney Lumet cast him in Stage Struck.

Christopher Plummer has long been one of the most respected actors in both theatre and film. In 2008, Alfred A. Knopf published his self-written memoir, In Spite of Myself, which became one of the most acclaimed autobiographies of recent years. He has also written for the stage, television, and the concert hall.

Raised in Montreal, Mr. Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. Legendary actress/director brought him to New York for his stage debut in 1954, and he has since starred in celebrated productions on Broadway, in Canada, and on London’s West End.

He has won two Tony Awards, for the musical Cyrano and for the play Barrymore, and been nominated seven times further (most recently for King Lear and Inherit the Wind). He has also been honored with three Drama Desk Awards and the National Arts Club Medal.

As a former leading member of the Royal National Theatre under Lord Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, Mr. Plummer won London’s Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in Becket. Additionally, he led Canada’s Stratford Festival in its

formative years under Sir and Michael Langham. Though he auditioned for Tyrone Guthrie for the Stratford Festival 's first season, he was not accepted. He went to New York in 1954 and worked on Broadway before being invited by Stratford's new artistic director, Michael Langham , to take on Henry V. With the company he subsequently performed the leads in Macbeth, Hamlet (the innaugural production of the company's Festival Theatre in 1957), (opposite Zoe Caldwell ), Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear (2002, dir , remounted on Broadway), a highly acclaimed reprise of Caesar and Cleopatra (2008), and The Tempest (2010).

He has also performed in London both at the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier and for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

His many performances in the U.S. include that of Cyrano in the musical of the same name, for which he won Tony award in 1974. In 1981, he turned in a stunning Iago to James Earl Jones' Othello. New York Times critic, , in his anthology Hot Seat, calls Plummer's acting in the work one of the twenty indelible performances he had seen during his career with the paper.

Plummer has toured in one-man-shows about Stephen Leacock and John Barrymore. His solo role in Barrymore earned him a Broadway Tony for best actor in 1997. He reprised the role in January 2011 in Toronto's Elgin and Winter Centre at the age of 81.

He was the first performer to receive the Jason Robards Award, in memory of his great friend. He has also been honored with the Edwin Booth Award and the Sir John Gielgud Quill Award. In 1968, sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada (an honorary knighthood).

An Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard, Mr. Plummer also received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 1986, he was inducted into the Theatre’s Hall of Fame and in 2000 to Canada’s Walk of Fame. In 2002, he was honored by the National Board of Review with the Career Achievement Award. In 2011 Christopher Plummer, 81, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It was the first time the festival had given such an award.

Plummer got his start in the theatre. His very first acting gig was in high school in Canada, when he played Mr. Darcy in a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” — a role he described as “a conceited, wonderfully arrogant young man.” Plummer said at the time, he thought he was the biggest star in the world. Critics came to the school play and gave him solid reviews. “I actually had no research to do,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I was already arrogant (laughs).”

He then did radio up in Montreal, in both English and French. Radio was a great training ground, he said, and it forced him to have at least 20 voices on tap – different voices to play different characters. “That was when radio was tops,” Plummer said. “So it gave one a great training for changing your voice or getting accents.” (Interestingly, in his coming film, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Plummer and the actors speak English with a Swedish accent.)

Over the past six decades, Plummer has played numerous stage roles. He is noted for being a fine Shakespearean actor, and has played everyone from Iago to King Lear to Julius Caesar. As for his dream role, he said, “I’ve played most of them already, and some of them twice.” But there was one screen role that got away: Henry II in “Becket.” Plummer had played the stage role with the Royal Shakespeare in the U.K. to great acclaim – he won the London Evening Standard award for Best Actor in 1961. When it came time to cast the film adaptation, he said he was determined to get the part. “Then my old friend Peter O’Toole got it instead, the son of a gun,” he said.

Actor Christopher Plummer is an international star on the stage, having performed in the theatre all his working life.

“An actor should be a mystery” - Christopher Plummer

He soon came to be one of the finest Shakespearean actors in Canada, America and England, performing regularly on Broadway and London's West End. In Plummer’s two years of acting with the Canadian Repertory Company, he played seventy- five different roles. In 1948 Director Malcolm Morley went from the Montreal theatre scene to join the Ottawa Stage Society. By 1949 the Society was developed into the Canadian Repertory Theatre Company (CRT) which produced a full season of 35 plays. The CRT opened October 1, 1949

at the old Academie De La Salle in Ottawa with Esther McCracken's play, Quiet Weekend. The purpose of the CRT was to:

· Provide high calibre legitimate stage entertainment · Build an audience that attends for the love of theatre · Provide careers at home for Canada's actresses and actors

Renowned Canadian actor Christopher Plummer joined the Ottawa Stage Society (later known as Canadian Repertory Theatre) in 1948, and for about three weeks served as backstage chore boy and occasional actor. At age 19 he gave an excellent performance as elderly Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version.

During his two years with the Canadian Repertory Theatre Company, Christopher Plummer was in about 75 productions. Those included The Infernal Machine in which another future Canadian star, William Shatner, was featured, and Cymbeline.

Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival:

Between 1956 and 1967 Christopher Plummer starred at Canada's STRATFORD FESTIVAL playing Henry V, Hamlet, Andrew Aguecheek, Mercutio, Leontes, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac and Marc Antony, as well as other roles. He returned 26 years later on 13 July 1993 to help the festival celebrate its exact 40th anniversary day with a gala one-man show entitled A Word or Two, Before You Go. Barrymore made its 1996 Canadian debut at Stratford and Plummer's King Lear was seen in 2002. He played Caesar in the Stratford Festival's Caesar and Cleopatra, which was also filmed for television in 2009. In 2010 he returned to the Festival ’s Theatre playing Prospero in the Tempest.

Christopher Plummer will return to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to perform his self- created show A Word or Two, Before You Go, in the summer of 2012 when the theatre will stage four new works as part of its 60th season.

His film roles have become increasingly more interesting as time has passed. In the past year, Plummer has appeared as Hal in “Beginners,” for which he has just received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also brought his Tony Award-winning Broadway role as John Barrymore to the screen in “Barrymore,” which played at the Toronto International Film Festival. He appeared in David Fincher’s highly anticipated film, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” as Henrik Vanger, the patriarch of the extended Vanger family.

But Plummer will always do theatre. “Nothing can replace a live audience,” he said. “That’s been the case for 3,000 years.”

According to him, the public’s regard for theatre has changed, and this has had a lamentable effect on not only the acting profession, but on young people’s appreciation for the arts. “I grew up in an era where the theatre was still absolutely revered and the cinema and the theatre complemented each other,” he said. “Now, the theatre – it’s there and always will be

there, of course, but the movies and the video games and all the other ancillary kind of success industries, as it were, have all got together and kind of obliterated what we’re all about. That’s sad because the theatre is the place for language and when language is sort of ignored, then there’s not much hope for any kind of esoteric or artistic life.”

Plummer pointed to Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton. “That is the highest we can go, the theatre, because for an actor, he is spouting words of all the greatest writers of all time, and they wrote for the theatre,” he said.

For his current stage project, Plummer has been working on a one-man show, “A Word or Two.” It is an autobiographical journey through literary works that have influenced him since childhood. In the past, he has performed a brief version of the show at charity fundraisers. He has since lengthened it and added more substance, he said, and he will perform it at the 2012 Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. “I get a chance to play all sorts of different creatures from the books and then narrate through that my story as I go,” he said. He hopes that after Stratford, the show will move on to New York for a limited run.

Meanwhile, he’s busy promoting this year’s films, particularly as he is being nominated for accolades for his performance in “Beginners.” As busy as he is, at age 82, Plummer shows no signs of stopping. “There’s no such thing as retirement,” he said. “This is a hobby as well as a profession, you know? It’s a fascinating world and never boring.” He brought up the late English actor, John Gielgud, who died in 2000 at the age of 96. “He was looking marvelous, straight as a ramrod, seemed to have just as much energy as he had before,” Plummer said of Gielgud. “No, no, I’m determined to pass John (laughs). I want to get to 97 at least.”

Christopher Plummer In Theatre:

He played Iago to James Earl Jones' Othello in Shakespeare's "Othello" on Broadway in 1982.

He played Macbeth opposite Glenda Jackson's in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on Broadway in 1988.

The Lark (1955). Drama. Written by Jean Anouilh. Book adapted by . Incidental music by . Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Costume Design by Alvin Colt. Lighting Design by Jo Mielziner. Assistant Scenic Design: John Harvey. Assistant Costume Design: Frank Spencer. Directed by . : 17 Nov 1955- 2 Jun 1956 (229 performances). Cast: Julie Harris (as "Joan"), (as "Robert de Beaudricourt"), (as "Cauchon"), Christopher Plummer (as "Warwick"), (as "The Inquisitor"), Vincent Beck, Joe Bernard, Charles Bressler, Arthur Burrows, (as "A Monk/A Soldier"), Ward Costello (as "Joan's Father"), Roger De Koven (as "The Promoter"), Joan Elan, Bruce Gordon, Edgar Grower, Jean Hakes, , Ann Hillary, Lois Holmes, , Edward Knight, Elizabeth Lawrence, William Lennard, Brayton Lewis, Ruth Maynard, Richard Nicholls, Russell Oberlin, Michael Price, John Reese, Ralph Roberts, Paul Roebling (as "The Dauphin"), Pauline Seim, Rita Vale, Betty Wilson. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden.

Play "Lock up your daughters" in , Ireland

January 31, 2009: Live play "Julius Caesar" (on cinema screens across Canada).

The Dark Is Light Enough (1955). Comedy. Written by Christopher Fry. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. ANTA Playhouse: 23 Feb 1955- 23 Apr 1955 (69 performances). Cast: (as "Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg"), (as "Richard Gettner, An Austrian in the Hungarian rebel army"), Arnold Moss (as "Colonel Janik, A Hungarian rebel officer"), (as "Belmann, Member of the Countess, Salon"), Dario Barri, Eva Condon (as "Bella, A Housekeeper"), Jerome Gardino, Ted Gunther (as "Beppy, A Hungarian corporal"), Donald Harron, Charles Macaulay, Christopher Plummer (as "Count Peter Zichy, A Hungarian in the Austrian government"), William Podmore, (as "Rusti, a

Hungarian corporal"), Paul Roebling (as "Stefan, Son of the Countess"), . Produced by Katharine Cornell and Roger L. Stevens. Produced by arrangement with H.M. Tennent, Ltd.

(May 24,1961) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III" in the Royal Shakespeare Company production in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England with and in the cast. William Gaskill was director.

(April 4,1961) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Much Ado About Nothing" in the Royal Shakespeare Company production in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England with Geraldine McEwan in the cast. Michael Langham was director.

(July 11, 1961) He acted in Jean Anouilh's play, "Becket," in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the in London, England in the Royal Shakespeare/Stratford-On-Avon Company production with Eric Porter, Gwen Frangcon-Davies, Peter Jeffrey, Diana Rigg, , and in the cast. Peter Hall was director.

(December 13, 1961-April 1962) He acted in Jean Anouilh's play, "Becket," for the Stratford Theatre Festival for the Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre at the in London, England with Eric Porter, Gwen Frangcon-Davies, Diana Rigg, Philip Voss, , and Robert Lang in the cast. Peter Hall was director.

Arturo Ui (1963). Written by (from "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui"). Book adapted by George Tabori. Incidental music by . Music orchestrated by Ray Ellis. Production Design by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. Make-up Supervisor: Mitchell Erickson. Lighting Assistant: Martin Aronstein. Directed by . Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: 11 Nov 1963 - 16 Nov 1963 (8 performances + 5 previews that began on 6 Nov 1963). Cast: Christopher Plummer (as "Arturo Ui. Produced by . Associate Producer: Neil Hartley.

(1971) He acted in 's play, "Amphitryon 38," in a National Theatre production at the New Theatre in London, England with Geraldine McEwan, , Richard Kay, and Jeanne Watts in the cast. Laurence Olivier was director.

(1971) He acted in Georg Buchner's play, "Danton's Death," in a National Theatre production at the New Theatre in London, England with Gillian Barge, Louise Purnell, Tom Georgeson, Charles Kay, Ronald Pickup, and Anna Carteret in the cast. Jonathan Miller was director.

(June 1971-January 1972) He acted in the Repertoire Season in the National Theatre production in Georg Buchner's play, "Danton's Death;" 's play, "Tyger;" Jean Giraudoux's play, "Amphitryon 38;" 's play, "The Rules of the Game;" and Eugene O'Neill's play, "Long Day's Journey Into Night;" at the New Theatre in London, England with Tom Baker, Anna Carteret, Constance Cummings, Bill Fraser, Geraldine McEwan, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Pickup, , , , and Benjamin Whitrow in the cast.

The Good Doctor (1973). Written by . Adapted and suggested from stories by . Additional lyrics by Neil Simon. Incidental music by . Directed by A.J. Antoon. Eugene O'Neill Theatre: 27 Nov 1973- 25 May 1974 (208 performances + 8 previews that began on 19 Nov 1973). Cast: Rene Auberjonois, Barnard Hughes, , Christopher Plummer, . Replacement actor during run: Kathryn Walker [from ? Feb 1974- ?]. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg and Eugene V. Wolsk.

Christopher Plummer - Broadway

Inherit the Wind [Broadway] Broadway Revival, 2007

Henry Drummond

King Lear [Broadway] Lincoln Center Revival, 2004 King Lear of Britain

Barrymore [Broadway] 1997 John Barrymore

No Man's Land [Broadway] 1994 Spooner

Macbeth [Broadway] Broadway Revival, 1988 Macbeth (a general of the Scottish army) Othello [Broadway] 1982 Iago

The Good Doctor [Broadway] 1973 Performer

Cyrano [Broadway] Original Broadway Production, 1973 Cyrano de Bergerac

The Royal Hunt of the Sun [Broadway] Broadway Production, 1965 Francisco Pizarro (Commander of the Expedition)

Arturo Ui [Broadway] 1963 Arturo Ui

J.B. [Broadway] 1958 Nickles

Night of the Auk [Broadway] 1956 Lewis Rohmen

The Lark [Broadway] 1955 Warwick

The Dark Is Light Enough [Broadway] 1955 Count Peter Zichy (A Hungarian in the Austrian government)

Home Is the Hero [Broadway] 1954 Manchester Monagham

The Starcross Story [Broadway] 1954 George Phillips

The Legend Library: A video record of theatrical legends Christopher Plummer

This series of exclusive video interviews is one of the most important initiatives, capturing the stories of theatrical legends. Conducted by actor/director RH Thomson, these comprehensive interviews will preserve our theatrical heritage for generations to come. This interview was filmed on October 6, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario.

Awards

Year Category Production Winner/Nominee

Drama Desk Award

2007 Outstanding Actor in a Play Inherit the Wind Nominee 2004 Outstanding Actor in a Play King Lear Nominee 1997 Outstanding Actor in a Play Barrymore Winner 1994 Outstanding Actor in a Play No Man’s Land Nominee 1982 Outstanding Actor in a Play Othello Winner 1973 Outstanding Performance Cyrano Winner

Outer Critics Circle

2007 Outstanding Actor in a Play Inherit the Wind Nominee 1997 Outstanding Actor in a Play Barrymore Winner 1973 Outstanding Actor in a Play Play Winner

Theatre World

1955 The Dark Is Light Enough Winner

Tony Award

2007 Actor in a Play Inherit the Wind Nominee 2004 Actor in a Play King Lear Nominee 1997 Actor in a Play Barrymore Winner 1994 Actor in a Play No Man’s Land Nominee 1982 Actor in a Play Othello Nominee 1974 Actor in a Musical Cyrano Winner 1959 Actor in a Play J.B. Nominee

• Cymbeline, Canadian Repertory Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, 1948 In Plummer’s two years of acting with the Canadian Repertory Company, he played seventy- five different roles. • Faulkland, The Rivals, Canadian Repertory Theatre, 1950 • Old Mahon, The Playboy of the Western World, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952 • Anthony Cavendish, The Royal Family, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952 • Ben, The Little Foxes, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952 • Duke Manti, The Petrified Forest, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952

• Father, George and Margaret, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952 • Hector Benbow, Thark, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952 • Bernard Kersal, Wife, Bermuda Repertory Theatre, 1952 • (Broadway debut) George Phillips, The Starcross Story, Royale Theatre, 1954.This show only lasted for one night. • Manchester Monaghan, Home Is the Hero, , New York City, 1954 • Jason, Medea, International Festival, Theatre, Paris, 1955 • Count Peter Zichy, The Dark Is Light Enough, American National Theatre Academy Theatre, New York City, 1955 • Earl of Warwick, The Lark, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1955 (worked with Theodore Bikel, who played Captain von Trapp on stage) • , Julius Caesar, American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT, 1955 • Ferdinand, The Tempest, American Shakespeare Festival, 1955 • Title role, Henry V, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, then Assembly Hall Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, , 1956 • Narrator, L'histoire du soldat, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1956 • Lewis Rohnen, , , New York City,1956 • Title role, Hamlet, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1957 • Sir Andrew Agueckeek, Twelfth Night, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1957 • Nickles, J. B., American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, 1958 • Leontes, The Winter's Tale, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1958 • Bardolph, Henry IV, Part I, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1958 • Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1958 • Philip the Bastard, , Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1960 • Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1960 • (London debut) King Henry II, Becket, Aldwych Theatre, 1961 • Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on- Avon, England, 1961 • Title role, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1961 • King Henry II, Becket, Aldwych Theatre, then Globe Theatre, London, 1961 • Title role, Cyrano de Bergerac, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962 • Title role, Macbeth, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1962 • Title role, Arturo Ui, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1963 • Francisco Pizarro, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, 1965 • Mark Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, Stratford Shakespeare Festival,1967 • Jupiter and Amphitryon, Amphitryon 38, National Theatre Company, New Theatre, London, 1971 • Danton, Danton's Death, National Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1971 • Title role, Cyrano (musical), Guthrie Theatre, , MN, then Palace Theatre, New York City, 1973 (won his first Tony Award for this performance). • Anton Chekov, The Good Doctor, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1973 • Lovers and Madmen, Opera House, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 1973 • Love and Master Will, Opera House, Kennedy Center, 1975 • Edgar, Drinks before Dinner, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public/Newman Theatre, New York City, 1978 • Title role, Henry V, American Shakespeare Festival, 1981 • Iago, Othello, , New York City, 1982 • Parade of Stars Playing the Palace, Palace Theatre, New York City,1983 • Peccadillo, Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Palm Beach, FL, 1985 • Title role, Macbeth, , New York City, 1988 • Narrator, , Hudson Theatre, New York City, 1990 • Spooner, No Man's Land, Roundabout Theatre, New York City, 1993 then , New York City, 1994 • John Barrymore, Barrymore, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1996 then , New York City, 1997 (won his second Tony Award for this performance). • A Shakespearean Tribute to the Late Sir John Gielgud, Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City, 2000 • Appeared in the solo show A Word or Two, Before You Go.

In 2002, he appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller. The production successfully transferred to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004.

Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead character, Prospero.

Plummer has toured in one-man-shows about Stephen Leacock and John Barrymore. His solo role in Barrymore earned him a Broadway Tony for best actor in 1997. He reprised the role in January 2011 in Toronto's Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre at the age of 81.

Christopher Plummer will return to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to perform his self- created show A Word or Two, Before You Go, in the summer of 2012 when the theatre will stage four new works as part of its 60th season.

Major Tours

• Gerard, Nina, U.S. cities, 1953 • Title role, Macbeth, U.S. cities, 1988 • John Barrymore, Barrymore, U.S. cities, beginning 1997. • Also appeared in The Dark Is Light Enough, U.S. cities.

The reputation of actor Christopher Plummer has been due to his memorable performances on stage.

Top Five Stage Roles of Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer

J.B. (1958): This Canadian-born star has played every conceivable classical role on stages around the world, but our list will concentrate on five of his seven Tony-nominated performances. Plummer’s first Tony nod came in 1958 in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that sounds both awesome and odd: Archibald MacLeish’s free-verse retelling of the Old Testament story of Job. Plummer played Nickles, a Satanic figure who urges J.B. (Pat Hingle) to commit suicide.

Cyrano (1973): You’ve seen him warble “Edelweiss” as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, but Plummer is also a Best Actor Tony winner for singing the role of Cyrano de Bergerac in the first of two short-lived musical adaptations of Edmond Rostond’s romantic adventure. Huge chunks of the show have been preserved in an original cast recording that shows off Plummer’s flair for lyrics penned by A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess.

Othello (1982): Plummer cemented his reputation as an unparalleled classical actor with a Tony-nominated performance as Iago opposite the great James Earl Jones. Plummer’s chilling portrayal of evil made it clear that Othello, powerfully portrayed by Jones, never stood a chance. (In his autobiography, Plummer blamed his Tony loss on the fact that his actress daughter, Amanda, won that year for Agnes of God.)

Barrymore (1997): At age 68, Plummer took on a demanding solo performance as iconic American actor John Barrymore in William Luce’s biographical play, bringing a rakish charm to the stage and earning his second Tony Award. Plummer, a lover of alcohol in his youth, has written of his obsession with Barrymore, who drank himself to death at 60. The role proved to be such a good fit that he reprised it to acclaim (at age 81, no less!) at Stratford in 2011.

King Lear (2004): The Mount Everest of Shakespearean roles has claimed of victims— but Plummer scaled its heights in a Tony-nominated performance that was both powerful and

heartbreaking. In a production that filled the huge stage at Lincoln Center’s , Lear’s old age became the emphasis, making his descent into madness all the more affecting.

Christopher Plummer playing Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre- eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the 20th century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

"All the world's a stage,

and all the men and women merely players:

they have their exits and their entrances;

and one man in his time plays many parts..."

—, Act II, Scene 7, 139–42.

It is not known exactly when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592.He was well enough known in London by then to be attacked in print by the playwright Robert Greene in his Groats-Worth of Wit:

...there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

Scholars differ on the exact meaning of these words, but most agree that Greene is accusing Shakespeare of reaching above his rank in trying to match university-educated writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe and Greene himself (the "university wits").The italicised phrase parodying the line "Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, along with the pun "Shake-scene", identifies Shakespeare as Greene's target. Here Johannes Factotum—"Jack of all trades"— means a second-rate tinkerer with the work of others, rather than the more common "universal genius".

Greene's attack is the earliest surviving mention of Shakespeare’s career in the theatre. Biographers suggest that his career may have begun any time from the mid-1580s to just before Greene's remarks. From 1594, Shakespeare's plays were performed only by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a company owned by a group of players, including Shakespeare, that soon became the leading playing company in London.After the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, the company was awarded a royal patent by the new king, James I, and changed its name to the King's Men.

In 1599, a partnership of company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the , which they called the Globe. In 1608, the partnership also took over the Blackfriars indoor theatre. Records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments indicate that the company made him a wealthy man. In 1597, he bought the second-largest house in Stratford, New Place, and in 1605, he invested in a share of the parish tithes in Stratford.

Some of Shakespeare's plays were published in quarto editions from 1594. By 1598, his name had become a selling point and began to appear on the title pages. Shakespeare continued to act in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright. The 1616 edition of 's Works names him on the cast lists for Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Sejanus His Fall (1603). The absence of his name from the 1605 cast list for Jonson’s is taken by some scholars as a sign that his acting career was nearing its end. The First Folio of 1623, however, lists Shakespeare as one of "the Principal Actors in all these Plays", some of which were first staged after Volpone, although we cannot know for certain which roles he played. In 1610, John Davies of Hereford wrote that "good Will" played "kingly" roles. In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father. Later traditions maintain that he also played Adam in As You Like It and the Chorus in Henry V, though scholars doubt the sources of the information.

Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford during his career. In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, north of the River Thames. He moved across the river to Southwark by 1599, the year his company constructed the Globe Theatre there. By 1604, he had moved north of the river again, to an area north of St Paul's Cathedral with many fine houses. There he rented rooms from a French Huguenot called Christopher Mountjoy, a maker of ladies' wigs and other headgear.

Canonical plays

The plays are here according to the order in which they are given in the First Folio of 1623. Plays marked with an asterisk (*) are now commonly referred to as the 'romances'. Plays marked with two asterisks (**) are sometimes referred to as the 'problem plays'.

Comedies

The Tempest * The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Merry Wives of Windsor

Measure for Measure ** The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love's Labour's Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream ** As You Like It All's Well That Ends Well ** Twelfth Night The Winter's Tale * Pericles, Prince of Tyre * (not included in the First Folio) The Two Noble Kinsmen * (not included in the First Folio)

Christopher Plummer as "Prospero" in The Tempest (2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival)

Histories

King John Richard II Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III Henry VIII

Actor Christopher Plummer Starring in Scene from Shakespeare's "Richard III"

Tragedies

Troilus and Cressida ** Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline*

Christopher Plummer as Hamlet, right, in a 1957 Stratford production. The production also featured Frances Hyland as Ophelia.

Chronology Plays by Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589–1591) The Taming of the Shrew (1590–1591) Henry VI, Part 2 (1590–1591) Henry VI, Part 3 (1591) Henry VI, Part 1 (1591) Titus Andronicus (1591–1592) Richard III (1592–1593) Edward III [26] (1594) The Comedy of Errors (1594) Love's Labour's Lost (1594–1595) Love's Labour's Won (1595–1596) Richard II (1595) Romeo and Juliet (1595) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) The Life and Death of King John (1596) The Merchant of Venice (1596) Henry IV, Part 1 (1596–1597) The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597–1598) Henry IV, Part 2 (1596–1597) Much Ado About Nothing (1598–1599) Henry V (1598–1599) Julius Caesar (1599) As You Like It (1599–1600) Hamlet (1599–1601) Twelfth Night (1601) Troilus and Cressida (1602)

Measure for Measure (1603–1604) Othello (1603–1604) King Lear (1605–1606) Timon of Athens (1605–1606) Macbeth (1606) Antony and Cleopatra (1606) All's Well That Ends Well (1606–1607) Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1607) Coriolanus (1608) The Winter's Tale (1609–1610) Cymbeline (1610–1611) The Tempest (1610–1611) Cardenio (1612–1613) Henry VIII, or All is True (1613) The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)

Christopher Plummer in Title Role in Production of Shakespeare's Richard III

Christopher Plummer and his stage performances

Early life

Plummer studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age, and began acting in high school. Plummer took up acting after seeing Laurence Olivier's film Henry V (1944). He travelled by train to gain experience with the Canadian Repertory Theatre (the CRT) in Ottawa.

Theatre

Christopher Plummer has played many of the great roles in classic repertoire. He did his apprenticeship with the Canadian Repertory Company (Ottawa, Ontario) from 1948–50, appearing in 75 roles, including Cymbeline in 1948 and The Rivals in 1950. He acted with the

Bermuda Repertory Theatre in 1952, appearing in many plays, including The Playboy of the Western World, The Royal Family, The Little Foxes, The Petrified Forest, and .

Broadway

Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story, a flop that closed on opening night. His next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances in September–October 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell and movie legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, which lasted 69 performances in February–April 1955. The play also toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Power's . (In his autobiography, Plummer states that Cornell was his 'sponsor.’ Later that year, he appeared in his first hit on Broadway, co-starring with Julie Harris (who won a Tony Award) in Jean Anouilh's The Lark.

After appearing in another flop, Night of the Auk, Plummer was in another hit, Elia Kazan's production of Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J.B., for which he was nominated for his first Tony Award as Best Actor in Play. (J.B. also won Tonies as Best Play and for Kazan's direction.)

Christopher Plummer in J.B.

Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to London. He appeared in the title role in a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which flopped, but he had a great success in Peter Schaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, playing conquistador Francisco Pizarro to 's Tony Award- nominated Atahuallpa. (In the 1969 film adaptation, Plummer would take the Atahuallpa role.)

From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano, a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. Later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simon's adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor, which was a hit.

In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones' Moor, and the title role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination.

Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The production played at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre in March, 1988.

He appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and scored one of his greatest successes in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award (this time as Best Actor in Play) and a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Play. He also was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind.

Christopher Plummer as John Barrymore in the 1996 Stratford Ontario Festival production

Stratford Festival

Plummer made his debut at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Ontario) in 1956, playing the title role in Henry V, which subsequently was performed that year at the Edinburgh Festival ( Edinburgh, Scotland). He played the title role in Hamlet and Sir Andrew Agueckeek in Twelfth Night at Stratford in 1957. The following year, he played Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Bardolph, in Henry IV, Part I, and Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing. In 1960, he played Philip the Bastard in King John and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. In 1962, he played the title roles in both Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth then returned in 1967 to play Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.

Christopher Plummer, seen as Anthony in Stratford's 1967 production of Anthony and Cleopatra

In 2002, he appeared in a lauded production of King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller. The production successfully transferred to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004.

Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead character, Prospero.

England

In April 1961, he appeared as Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-Upon-Avon, England). He also appeared with the RSC in May 1961 in the lead role of Richard III. He made his London debut on June 11, 1961 playing King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket with the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Peter Hall. The production later transferred to the Globe for a December 1961 to April 1962 run. For his performance, Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.

Christopher Plummer as King Henry in a scene from the play 'Becket', July 11, 1961

From June 1971 to January 1972, he appeared at the National Theatre, acting in repertory for the season. The plays he appeared in where Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 directed by Laurence Olivier; Georg Büchner's Danton's Death (director Jonathan Miller); Adrian Mitchell's Tyger; Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game; and Eugene O'Neill' Long Day's Journey Into Night at the New Theatre in London.

Other venues

Edward Everett Horton hired Plummer to appear as Gerard in the 1953 road show production of Andre Roussin's Nina, a role originated on Broadway by David Niven in 1951.He appeared as Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in ' adaptation of Medea at the Theatre Sara Bernhardt in Paris in 1955. The American National Theatre and Academy production, directed by Guthrie McClintic, was part of Le Festival International.

Also in 1955, he played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest at the American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Connecticut). He returned to the American Shakespeare Festival in 1981 to play the title role in Henry V.

Plummer appeared in Lovers and Madmen at the Opera House, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. in 1973 and in Love and Master Will at the same venue in 1975. Love and Master Will consisted of selections from the works of William Shakespeare on the subject of love, arranged by Plummer. His co-stars were Zoe Caldwell, Bibi Andersson, and .

He played the part of Edgar in E.L. Doctorow's Drinks before Dinner with the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Public/Newman Theatre in New York City in 1978.

Other works

Christopher Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Plummer and Sir rearranged Shakespeare’s Henry V with Sir ’s music as a concert piece. They recorded the work with Marriner's chamber orchestra the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

He performed it and other works with the and symphony orchestras of London, Washington, D.C., , Ohio, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. With Marriner he made his debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

William Shakespeare quotes such as "To be, or not to be" and "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" form some of literature's most celebrated lines. Other famous Shakespeare quotes such as "I 'll not budge an inch", "We have seen better days" ,"A dish fit for the gods" and the expression it's "Greek to me" have all become catch phrases in modern day speech. Furthermore, other William Shakespeare quotes such as "to thine own self be true" have become widely spoken pearls of wisdom.

Christopher Plummer narrating during “Henry V: A Musical Scenario After Shakespeare” with the New York Philharmonic.

Awards and Honors

Christopher Plummer Awards and Honors - An Impressive List

There have been many Christopher Plummer awards and honors received in Canada, America, Great Britain and Austria. Here is the most comprehensive list that you will find of all the awards that he has won during his long and successful career as an actor:

2012 Academy Award Best Supporting Actor

(award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Christopher Plummer wins Oscar for best supporting actor and received a standing ovation as he won the award at the 2012 Oscars for his role in Beginners

Christopher Plummer may be the oldest Oscar winner ever, but he’s not showing any signs of slowing down.The 82-year-old came on stage Sunday night to accept his best supporting actor award and stared at the statuette before remarking on how great it looked.“You’re only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life?” Plummer asked.At birth, he joked, “I was already rehearsing my academy acceptance speech, but it was so long ago mercifully for you I’ve forgotten it.”The humor and heartfelt one he delivered Sunday night wasn’t that original version, he said, but, “I haven’t forgotten who to thank.Backstage, Plummer told reporters of the recognition he’s received recently, “It’s sort of a renewal, it has recharged me,” he said. “I hope I can do it for another 10 years at least.

Plummer has enjoyed a vibrant career that has included his first two Oscar nominations in the past three years. Wearing a navy velvet tuxedo, Plummer thanked fellow nominees, co-stars and his wife, who he said “deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life.”Plummer won for his role in “Beginners” as Hal Fields, a museum director who becomes openly gay after his wife of 44 years dies. His loving, final relationship becomes an inspiration for his son, who struggles with his father’s death and how to find intimacy in a new relationship.Over more than 50 years in the industry, Plummer has enjoyed varied roles ranging from Captain Von Trapp in the “The Sound of Music” to the voice of the villain in 2009’s “Up.” He was nominated for his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in “The Last Station” three years ago. Plummer beat out fellow nominees , Jonah Hill, and fellow octogenarian Max von Sydow.He displaces , who in 1976 was the oldest nominee to win a supporting actor Oscar at age 80. , who won for “Driving Miss Daisy” was the oldest winner before Sunday’s show.Plummer’s age was a joke for host , who told the audience, “He may be walking up on stage tonight because apparently he wanders off.”In the end, Plummer did end up onstage and it wasn’t a mistake at all. The audience showered him with applause and Plummer’s lifelong dream was fulfilled.Not that he’s going to stop acting anytime soon. “I’m going to drop dead wherever I am, whether it’s onstage or on a set,” Plummer said after his win.

Golden Globes 2012 Best Supporting Actor In A Motion Picture

Christopher Plummer won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in 'Beginners."

When Christopher Plummer accepted his supporting actor Golden Globe award Sunday for his role in writer-director Mike Mills' film “Beginners,” he modestly apologized to his fellow nominees for his win. But don’t be fooled by the 82-year-old’s humility. “That was humor,” Plummer said backstage to reporters. More seriously, though, he said: “I always like to salute my competitors … No one is better than the other. It’s just that someone has to win.”In “Beginners,” Plummer portrays Hal, an elderly widow who comes out as gay to his son, played by Ewan McGregor. Asked about the demonstrations — both anti-gay and pro-gay — taking place just outside the Beverly Hilton, Plummer called for tolerance. “Gay [people] are human beings … I know there is an awful lot of anti-gay feeling at this moment and I abhor it,” he said.Speaking on his role, Plummer noted: “It was such an understated, human kind of character that I haven’t played for a long time. I’ve never had such a fun time.”

Critics’ Choice Movie Award 2012

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer for Beginners

2011 Christopher Plummer honoured by Stratford festival

Canadian stage and screen were in Toronto on Sept. 26 2011 at a gala in Toronto. to celebrate the career of actor Christopher Plummer.Plummer, 81, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It is the first time the festival has given such an award.Plummer played his first big role at Stratford – as Henry V – in 1956 and played frequently with the company as his Broadway and film acting career took off. He had a critically acclaimed role in its 2008 production of Caesar and Cleopatra, followed by a turn as Prospero in The Tempest in 2010.

Palm Beach International Film Festival (2007) Plummer won this award for Best Actor for his role as "Flash Madden" in Man in the Chair. Sir John for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts, aka The Golden Quill (2006) Here is Christopher Plummer during the awards ceremony, right.

Three New York Drama Desk Awards These awards are for actors’ stage performances wherever they are presented, not only Broadway productions, but Off-Broadway as well.

LePrix Marc L’Escarbot

Presented to Plummer for his performance in French as Moliere.

The Theatre World Award

This award is presented to six actors and six actresses for their debut performances on the stage. The first awards were a framed certificate, then a plaque and then the bronze Janus Award that can be seen here. Christopher Plummer won this award for his performance in ‘The Dark is Light Enough” by Christopher Fry.

Shakespeare Society Medal/Shakespeare with Music (2004)

Christopher Plummer performed Shakespeare with Music with composer Michael Lankester for the Shakespeare Company. It was his way of saying thank you to the Society. He read excerpts from various Shakespeare plays accompanied by music. Plummer said “You just have to speak over the orchestra,” which consisted of seven musicians conducted by Lankester himself. During the evening the award was presented to Plummer in recognition of his contribution to the world of Shakespeare.

Christopher Plummer Fellowship Awards (2002)

Robards Award (Roundabout Theater NYC) (2002)

Plummer was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theater. Robards died of cancer in December 2000. Plummer was the first performer to be presented with the Jason Robards’ Award for Excellence in memory of his late great friend.He was a close friend to Robards, and his co-star in Roundabout’s ‘No Man’s Land’ (1994). The prize was given to him by the Roundabout Theatre. Julie Andrews who played Maria alongside Plummer in The Sound of Music, was there to congratulate him on the honor.

Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)

Christopher Plummer received this award for a lifetime of achievements and for his contributions to his country and to the world. In addressing Plummer, the Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, referred to his ‘versatility, elegance and powerful male beauty.’ Plummer can be seen here wearing his commemorative medal,accompanied by his wife, Elaine.

Canada’s Walk of Fame (1999)

This award recognised Christopher Plummer as a Canadian citizen who has excelled in the area of performing arts. He had his star added to the rest of the collection that appear along a sidewalk in Toronto’s Theatre District. Plummer’s star can be found on the corner of King Street West and Duncan Street. The Canadian Walk of Fame has been described as one of the most prestigious awards in Canada. Plummer was eligible for this award because he was born in Canada, had spent his formative and creative years in Canada and had a minimum of ten years in his profession.

Kennedy Center Honors (1999)

Christopher Plummer hosted this event by honouring .

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (1999)for 'The Insider'.

Boston Society of Film Critics Award (1999) for 'The Insider'.

Chicago Jefferson Award (1999) for 'The Insider'.

The National Arts Club of America (1999)

Plummer was awarded its gold medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. The Common Wealth Award (1998)

Otherwise known as The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service which were created by Ralph Hayes to reward the best of human performance worldwide, and to provide an incentive for people to make even more contributions to the world.

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (1997) as leading role in 'Barrymore'.

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre are more commonly known as the Tony Awards and recognize achievement in live American theater. They are considered to be America’s highest honor in the theater.

Outer Critics Circle Awards (1997)

Plummer was given this award for his outstanding performance as an actor.

Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)

Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance(1994) for his work on the Family Channel's Madeline children's series.

Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award (1994)

This award was created to honor living artists.

Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, Will Award (1990)

Plummer was presented with this award for his "major contribution to classical theater in America".

Austria’s Golden Badge of Honor.

Salzburg’s Chalice of Honour

New York Public Library - Literary Lion (1988)

Plummer was described as ‘a lion of the performing arts’.

American Theatre’s Hall of Fame (1986)

Christopher Plummer was unable to receive this award, so his daughter, Amanda Plummer (photo below), accepted it for him.

Maple Leaf Distinguished Artist Award (1982)

Christopher Plummer accepted the first annual Maple Leaf Distinguished Artist Award and said “I’m proud to be the first damned gypsy to have stolen this award. He went on to say that Canadian actors once had to go to London or to New York to be recognized. He thought it was terrific for Canadians to recognize their own people.

Genie Award for Best Actor in a leading role (1980)

Originally known as The , also known as the Etrog Awards, because it was sculptor Sorel Etrog who designed the award. Plummer was given this award for being the best actor in Canadian cinema. It was presented to him by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for his performance in Murder by Decree.

Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series (1976) for Arthur Hailey's 'The Moneychangers'.

Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (1974) for his lead role in 'Cyrano'.

The Distinguished Performance Award (1974)

This award was originally known as the Delia Austrian Medal and is the oldest and most exclusive theatrical honor in North America.

Companion of the Order of Canada (1968)

This is the country's highest civilian honor and one which required the approval of the sovereign for Plummer’s services to drama. Christopher Plummer was invested with this Order by Governor-General Roland Michener in Quebec City. Those who are made

companions of the order are given a six-leaf pendant attached to a red and white ribbon. On the medal is engraved the motto, Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam (Hebrews 12: 16) which means ‘They desired a better country’.

London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor (1961) King Henry II in the stage play 'Becket'.

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New York’s Juilliard School (1993)

Honorary doctorates from (2003)

Honorary doctorates from (2002)

Ryerson awards its ‘highest honor to those who have made extraordinary contributions in Canada………or to the enhancement of Canadian culture or society.’ Plummer was made a Doctor of Letters.

Honorary doctorates from McGill University (2006)

When Christopher Plummer received his doctorate, he told the five hundred students that his family had links with McGill University. His great aunt Maude Abbott was one of the earliest women to graduate from McGill. He then went on to explain that his connection with the university was that he flunked his exam!

Honorary doctorates from University of Western Ontario (2004)

Plummer received an honorary doctorate of laws degree and gained a new title of ‘doctor.’ He said that he had never been to college because he didn’t have the time and has regretted this

all his life. It wasn’t the university degree that he missed , but the whole experience of going to college.

Honorary doctorates from (2007) At the ceremony, Christopher Plummer urged graduates in his speech to ‘throw all caution to the wind, storm the Bastille – but for God’s sake, wait for me – because I’m coming with you.’

Honorary doctorates from (2009